📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The Comunidad Agropecuaria Industrial A.C. was founded 20 years ago and has had various volunteers from all over the world. Kibbutz means community, in specific to live in a community where the people sow and harvest their own food. This community also owns a hostel for events and a social center in Amexhe, Guanajuato. In the community the environment is respected, they make their own compost and implemented green energy. Their mission is to be an auto- sustainable community respecting the environment and having a social impact. They pay attention to vulnerable social groups with few resources.
The community's objectives are:
To be 100% auto-sustainable.
To cultivate 20 hectares of organic products.
To have their own brand of dairy products and to offer them to the community.
To contribute with the self-employment and education of the people in Amexhe.
💼 What the programme involves
The project Teaching Farm aims to realize educational activities as well as animal feed. The project includes organizing and doing workshops for primary school students who visit the farm. Specific activities are: organization of everything for the visits of schools, animal feed, helping to vaccinate, cleaning and repairing the farmyard, taking control of the lavatories, reproduction and loss of life.
The daily timetable is: from 8.00 to 8.30 a.m. meditation, at 8.30 a.m. breakfast, work from
9.00 a.m. to 2.00 p.m. and from 3.00 p.m. to
6.00 p.m., lunch during the break. Additionally, every Thursday at 7.00 p.m. there is a meeting of the community. The volunteers are going to have free time from Saturday at noon to Sunday
9.00 p.m.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The lodging is going to be in rooms with one or two beds and a private bath- room. The rooms are part of the project; therefore no transportation from the accommodation to the project is needed.
From Monday to Saturday the breakfast and lunch is going to be cooked for everyone. The volunteers are going to cook themselves their diner and the meals on Sunday.
📍 About the location
Apaseo el Grande, Guanajuato is at about 4 hours by bus from Mexico City.
FREE TIME: Interesting places nearby to visit are Querétaro, Celaya, San Miguel de Allende, Pea de Bernal, Tequisquiapan and Guanajuato. In the area of Kibbutz the volunteers can go jogging, playing squash and soccer