We just left the community this morning and we are back to civilisation. We spent one month without phone, alcool, TV, meat, tobacco and without shoes even for carpentry and gardening, now we have to re-adapt ourselves (mostly for the shoes !).
We are currently working as volunteer in a community near Itacaré, Brazil. This community is composed by 16 adults and 13 children living in wood-homemade-houses in the forest, near a river. There is always some volunteers working there to help in the house construction (Fabien’s job), gardening/farming (Paula’s job), making cacao paste (everybody), cooking, …
The place is beautiful and the people very nice. A short movie will probably give you much more of the atmosphere than a long talk :
This Video was shot just before we arrived, so we are not on it but it shows a bit the daily atmosphere.
About the work, it’s very well organised, we wake up at 6h30, breakfast all together. Then we work from 8h00 to 12h00 and all the afternoon are free. The Weekends are free too. So we have a lot of time for kayak, reading, swimming, personal projects, write diary,…
The guy who is managing the volunteers is also very open to new projects, improvement proposals,… So when someone have an idea he is welcome to talk about it, and make it concrete if it’s a good one. The internet connection here is very bad so we cannot upload new pictures of us. They will come later!
After the forest and mountains, we decided to go the coast for sun, swim and surf. Itacare was decribed as a vibrant surftown. We wanted to learn how to surf and vibrant, why not! We arrived a friday night Read More