Volunteering at O Fojo
Volunteering at O Fojo is a personal commitment to live in a Permaculture Project in implementation, with all the benefits and the challenges of each different phase of it’s implementation process.
It is an awesome opportunity to experience what is to live in a countryside land based community in formation and, at the same time, a great occasion to observe, reflect and relate to the sensations that we are going to experiment each moment.
Here we try to apply mindfulness to all the process of doing whatever we do and this bring us much more chances to really embody the learning lessons that this period at O Fojo allows us to integrate.
It is also a good way to practice your hidden or active skills like painting or sculpturing, cooking, singing, playing, dreaming, projecting, and most of all being creative an having fun with an international team of aware people, living together in a deepening nature connection.
It will be a pleasure to have you here!
It is an awesome opportunity to experience what is to live in a countryside land based community in formation and, at the same time, a great occasion to observe, reflect and relate to the sensations that we are going to experiment each moment.
Here we try to apply mindfulness to all the process of doing whatever we do and this bring us much more chances to really embody the learning lessons that this period at O Fojo allows us to integrate.
It is also a good way to practice your hidden or active skills like painting or sculpturing, cooking, singing, playing, dreaming, projecting, and most of all being creative an having fun with an international team of aware people, living together in a deepening nature connection.
It will be a pleasure to have you here!
To volunteer at O Fojo you assume the commitment to:
Understand our vision and decide to help us go for it with hands, hearts and heads.
Agree with the established daily and weekly schedule and commit to accomplish to it in the agreed period of volunteering.
Become a temporary community member and his/her voice is taken into account and integrated in the day by day decisions.
Understand the way we do things and try lo live this way as a valuable approach to experiment even it is not his/her way of doing things and integrates the personal lesson of it.
To work diligently for 4 periods of 1:30 hours a day, making a total of 6 hours work plus the shared tasks such washing and cleaning, some integrated in this period, some not. Saturday is a shopping and cleaning day and Sunday is a rest day.
Be available for transparency and true and be willing to personal evolution process understanding and, at the same time, understanding that the community is more important than “me”.
Be a friendly, open mind, healthy (no drugs, no tobacco, no alcohol consumption are allowed at O Fojo) and trustful people.
To meditate every morning with all the people present at O Fojo.
Understand our vision and decide to help us go for it with hands, hearts and heads.
Agree with the established daily and weekly schedule and commit to accomplish to it in the agreed period of volunteering.
Become a temporary community member and his/her voice is taken into account and integrated in the day by day decisions.
Understand the way we do things and try lo live this way as a valuable approach to experiment even it is not his/her way of doing things and integrates the personal lesson of it.
To work diligently for 4 periods of 1:30 hours a day, making a total of 6 hours work plus the shared tasks such washing and cleaning, some integrated in this period, some not. Saturday is a shopping and cleaning day and Sunday is a rest day.
Be available for transparency and true and be willing to personal evolution process understanding and, at the same time, understanding that the community is more important than “me”.
Be a friendly, open mind, healthy (no drugs, no tobacco, no alcohol consumption are allowed at O Fojo) and trustful people.
To meditate every morning with all the people present at O Fojo.
Yes, we are open to receive long and also short term volunteers to integrate the team that are responsible for the land tasks like feeding the animals, gardening, cooking, maintenance, organizing, cleaning, finishing and implementing our structures, paper and internet work.
A long term volunteer for us is:
A volunteer that makes the commitment to stay with us for at least one month. Ideally the minimum period should be three months to six months, renewable for six months more.
A volunteer that has certain skills or wants to develop in certain skill and is able to take responsibility and leadership to focus on the the accomplishment of specific tasks with autonomy.
A volunteer that makes the commitment to stay with us for at least one month. Ideally the minimum period should be three months to six months, renewable for six months more.
A volunteer that has certain skills or wants to develop in certain skill and is able to take responsibility and leadership to focus on the the accomplishment of specific tasks with autonomy.
A short term volunteer for us is:
A volunteer that makes the commitment to stay with us for at least one to three weeks.
A volunteer that has certain skills or wants to develop in certain skill and is able to accomplish specific tasks with some autonomy, working at the same time, with specific directions given by the task focalizer.
A volunteer that makes the commitment to stay with us for at least one to three weeks.
A volunteer that has certain skills or wants to develop in certain skill and is able to accomplish specific tasks with some autonomy, working at the same time, with specific directions given by the task focalizer.
Yes. All volunteers supports their own living costs, according their commitment. The same happens with the community members with the main difference that those who are community members (temporary or full members) spends more money than the volunteers to live here.
The total amount of the period should be given to O Fojo responsible at the very beginning of this period (or monthly to the long term volunteers committed to longer time).
If you leave the place, for any reason, before the committed period O Fojo is not going to give this value back.
The total amount of the period should be given to O Fojo responsible at the very beginning of this period (or monthly to the long term volunteers committed to longer time).
If you leave the place, for any reason, before the committed period O Fojo is not going to give this value back.
Long term volunteers collaborates with 6 euro a day to costs of food, fuel, water, safety equipment availability like gloves and boots, toilet paper, tools, cleaning products, personal hygiene products, maintenance camping and weekly personal coaching sessions.
Short term volunteers for one week collaborates with 10 euro a day to costs of food, fuel, water, safety equipment availability like gloves and boots, toilet paper, cleaning products, personal hygiene products, maintenance and camping.
Short term volunteers for two to three weeks collaborates with 8 euro a day to costs of food, fuel, water, safety equipment availability like gloves and boots, toilet paper, cleaning products, personal hygiene products, maintenance, camping and a weekly personal coaching session.
Yes you can volunteer, doing tasks that you can fulfill at your own home. Please tell us your interest, availability and skills to volunteer for the achievement of our goals. We are going to find a way you can do it!
Yes, we are open to receive daily visitors/volunteers to integrate the volunteer team.
This volunteers will help with tasks for a minimum 3 hours a day and they will collaborate with 15 euro a day to costs of food, fuel, water, safety equipment availability like gloves and boots, toilet paper, cleaning products, personal hygiene products, maintenance and camping area and personal support to understand better what we are doing here.
At the same time we are going to create along the year, specific opportunities for the people that wants to come to visit and help us just for a weekend. Only in that moments we will accepts volunteers for two or three days only.
This volunteers will help with tasks for a minimum 3 hours a day and they will collaborate with 15 euro a day to costs of food, fuel, water, safety equipment availability like gloves and boots, toilet paper, cleaning products, personal hygiene products, maintenance and camping area and personal support to understand better what we are doing here.
At the same time we are going to create along the year, specific opportunities for the people that wants to come to visit and help us just for a weekend. Only in that moments we will accepts volunteers for two or three days only.
Daily schedule (To be adapted according to the season and weather)
06:20 Wake up
06:30 Silent group meditation
07:30 Breakfast | dish washing | personal time
08:15 Morning circle | check in | daily organization
08:30 Work Session 1
10:00 Coffee break | personal time
10:30 Work Session 2 (lunch team leaves work tasks at 11:00)
12:00 Lunch | dish washing | personal time
13:30 Work Session 3
15:00 Tea break | personal time
15:30 Work Session 4
16:30 Tools, space cleaning and organization (dinner team leaves)
17:00 Personal time
18:00 Dinner | dish washing
19:00 Evening meditation (everyone at O Fojo)
19:30 Personal time or evening session (film, talk, circle, forum, creative lab, etc.)
21:30 Silence time
Note: Volunteers at O Fojo are committed to accomplish with this time table.
Weekly Schedule (To be adapted according to the group, event or priority)
Monday
Building day
Tuesday
Building morning | gardening afternoon | internet day
Wednesday
Building | maintenance | improvement day
Thursday
Building morning | gardening afternoon | internet day
Friday
Gardening morning | next week’s organizing afternoon | internet day
Saturday
Market and internet morning | cleaning and space organizing afternoon
Sunday
Rest day (volunteer cooking and cleaning team scheduled on Saturday)
Note: Volunteers at O Fojo are committed to accomplish with this time table.
Unfortunately we are not able yet to afford having woffers here and support the costs of it. Maybe in the future we will open this opportunity.
If you are really interested to become a long term volunteer at O Fojo and you cannot afford the totality of the costs you can expose your situation to us and we can try to find a way for you to come.
Please be sure you are a skilled and autonomous person that will be a real added value to our project goals.
Please be sure you are a skilled and autonomous person that will be a real added value to our project goals.