VOLUNTEER IN BRAZIL AT AN AGROFORESTRY & BIOCONSTRUCTION FARM

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Basic Information

Address: Estrada Ernesto de Souza Cardinot, s/n - Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 28630-994.
Phone Number: (22) 99751-2422
Director: Bart Bijen

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Additional Information

Background Check: Yes
Population Served: For all people
Ages for Volunteer: 18+
Minimum Hours of Service Required: Your helping hand will be required on Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 07:00 - 16:00
Days of Service: Monday, Wednesday and Friday
Languages: English, Spanish, German, Dutch and Portuguese
Languages used as a Medium: English and Portuguese
Programs Open To: Agroforestry, Bioconstruction and Permaculture.
Application Process:

For the Application Process tell us about your skills and add CV.

Program Highlights:

At Eco Caminhos, Brazil, we welcome volunteers from all over the world. We invite them to join our organization and we believe in exchanging knowledge, experiences, and friendship. At the Eco Farm, you will learn to live according to the principles of permaculture while practicing natural construction (bioconstruction), agroforestry, and organic farming.

Volunteering contributes to our mental, physical, and spiritual health. The beautiful nature, rural life, and manual work are relaxing and release the mind from stressful city life. Communal life is beautiful but also challenging, as it exposes your strengths and weaknesses. Those who are open to listen and reflect, however, can grow incredibly.

In your free time you can enjoy a nice healthy meal at a campfire, dive under one of many amazing waterfalls, or play some fun board games with the other residents. On a weekly basis we organize hikes, mountain bike tours, waterfall tours and visit the touristic sites in the region. With the other Brazilian residents you can practise your Portuguese.

For accommodation there is possibility to live on the farm with other volunteers & apprentices; rent our Eco Lodge (bioconstructed) or do a homestay with the Bijen family (founders).

Mission Statement:

One of our great motivations is that Earth is in crisis. With 7.3 billion people on this planet, the world faces unprecedented challenges: polluted cities, a growing number of natural disasters, pandemics, financial crises, hungry people, war, terrorism and corruption. And we of Eco Caminhos are part of a growing counter-movement that seeks a simpler and more committed lifestyle in finding and sharing sustainable solutions. We believe in autonomous and communal living in terms of food, energy and building materials, exchange of knowledge, skills and experiences among people.

Philosophy/Belief Statement:

Eco Caminhos is an ecovillage in the middle of the beautiful mountains near the city of Nova Friburgo, in Rio de Janeiro. Our intention is to become a self-sustaining community producing our own food, energy and building materials, creating a healthy and active living environment.

We believe that this is the ideal scene for human development as we learn to live, work, evolve and solve our problems together.

From different experiences in community life, we realize that shared ownership is extremely complex, so at Eco Caminhos we try to overcome these challenges together, seeking to share, deciding and welcome people from different cultural contexts, life experiences and dreams. Our commitment is to break the invisible barriers that often exist between ourselves and the unknown.

Additional Information:

In order to join the program you need to be at least 18 years old on the program start date. There might be exemptions if you can provide the permission of your legal guardian(s) or if your are accompanied by your parents.

For more information visit our website.