Call for volunteers

Work and learn as a GARDENER / ANIMAL-KEEPER / CARPENTER / MUSICIAN / ARTIST / COOK / FACILITATOR in the countryside. You can also combine these roles… Welcome to our VILLAGE COMMUNITY in Hungary.

We are looking for 3 young people to enroll in this program, who are between the age of 18-30 and are from the EU.

The project is 6 months long and it starts 24th of March 2025.

Please apply with motivation letter and CV here: Edit Jagodics falusi.fortelyok.iskolaja@nagyszekely.hu

Are you interested in natural life? Would you like to be outside, learn about plants, animals and creative solutions? And be involved in the life of a friendly village community? Come to Hungary and become one of our long-term volunteers!

Tasks

You can help at family-size ecological farms, at workshops and building sites, or at the Kék Ház community center.

YOU CAN CHOOSE WHAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO DO MOST.
Main type of activities:

  1. Traditional animal keeping at a farm with goats and many other animals, cheese making.
  2. Eco-building, construction and renovation, working with wood/metal/cob and other materials.
  3. Natural gardening in the forest garden and food processing.
  4. Taking part in preparing and performing music, or creation of visual art on site

Volunteers might help with other tasks as well, according to their interest and skills:

  • Leading interactive programs for adults or children (e.g.sports, music, dance, games)
  • Communication via internet surfaces – taking photos, writing texts.

Experience of volunteers

Training

Volunteers get introduced to activities of self-sufficiency with the technical details of given processes. They learn about ways of creating ecological habitats that serve as natural HOME for human beings, plants and animals. They can acquire basic planning methods of permaculture. They can discover healthy, natural, sustainable lifestyles in a friendly community. They can learn how to produce food from experts of ecological gardening. They can discover a kind of animal keeping that respects animals. They can get insights to natural building technologies. If they are interested, we connect them to masters of different crafts, and they can learn some special handicrafts as well.

Gratitude

We are grateful for the presence and precious help of our ex-volunteers! In 2021: Viktoria (Lithuania), Helena (Spain), Pascaline (France). In 2022: Katya (Ukraine), Louis (France), Dóri (Hungary). In 2023: Richards (Latvia), Judith (France), Brigi (Hungary), Flora (France). In 2024: Llorenc (Spain), Maelle (France), Virág (Hungary), Charlie (France), Mandy (Netherlands), Fynn (Germany).

Conditions

Volunteers work 27 hours a week, and dedicate another 3 hours to participate in training and feedback activities. They are hosted in a traditional cob house. It has a garden with nice shadow of walnut trees. Each person has a personal bedroom. The house has a common kitchen and a bathroom. Volunteers cook and shop for themselves. We provide a bicycle to get around in the village. Nagyszékely village is situated 120 km South of Budapest, it is 60 km away from lake Balaton. In the nearby Kisszékely village there is a nice forest, there is a fishing lake and a swimming pool in the summer.

Accomodation

Apply here

Please send your Motivation Letter and CV.
Email: falusi.fortelyok.iskolaja[kukac]nagyszekely.hu

We will choose participants via online interview.

Volunteers are hosted by Two Towers of Nagyszékely Association and the School of Village Life.

This program is financed by European Solidarity Corps.