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Note: This profile is in a transition. I have years of experience in recieving Workawayers, but my proyect has changed from a mushroom farm to a cultural proyect in the Indiginous reseve Escopetera y Pirza in Bonafont Caldas.
All current references on this profile refer to volunteers that worked with me on the mushroomfarm, not this new proyect.
We, Adriana and Peter a Colombian/Dutch couple, run a place A Workshop/Gastrobar located inside the Indiginous reserve. During the weekends we act as a Gastrobar and are open to the public in general. During the week we use our instalations as a workshop for social activities.
One of he ideas -is to create a space for social and cultural interchange between the local rural/indiginous population and world travelers. We believe in the potential of rural comunities but to improve the sustainability of these comunities we need to combine ancient (local) knowledge, with modern global knowledge. Receiving international volunteers is one of the ways we can help to create this intercultural connection.
The RIEP is currently developing a community based tourism program and we need inputs from international travelers to identify the strenghts and weaknesses of our territory for sustainable tourism, aswell as help us to develop this plan.
In our Workshop/Gastrobar we would like to develop all kind of cultural activities directed at strengthening "wellbeing vs consumerism". Adriana has worked for 10 years in an NGO and later as a schoolteacher and now wants to setup her own NGO. This new NGO focuses on propiatary education for the local community. This propiatary education is promoted by the indiginous counsel of the RIEP and is based upon the teachings of the the elders and the territory. The idea is to restrenghten the historical roots of the population by means of all kind of social and cultural activities.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Charity Work
Art Projects
Language practice
Help with Eco Projects
Teaching
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Farmstay help
Babysitting and creative play
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
Hospitality/Tourism
General Maintenance
Help with Computers/ Internet
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Travelers can interact with the local comunity of the Indiginous reserve. -has a wide network of connections and we can help volunteers to find contactacs of specific interests. Or just work with us and experience a rural way of life.
Help
Our project needs a wide variety of skills. We would like all volunteers to be able to teach English, but apart from this we would like to recive help in sustainable/community tourism, socialmedia marketing, permaculture, ecoconstruction, , etc.
If you have a desire to volunteer with us, but have other skills, let us know your interests and we´ll try to work something out.
Languages
Languages spoken
German: Fluent
English: Fluent
Spanish: Fluent
Dutch: FluentThis host offers a language exchange
Bonafont has tourism potencial but one of the main barriers is the fact that the rural population only speaks Spanish. We would like to facilitate the interaction between locals and volunteers to promote mutilingualism and cultural interchange.
Accommodation
We have an agreement with a small local hotel. We will provide you with a simpel but clean and safe room and share our meals with you. The hotel is about 400 meters from us
What else ...
Our place is located in Bonafont a small village close to Riosucio, in the department of Caldas. Bonafont is a sleepy agricultural village where the time seems to have stopped some decades ago. Bonafont and the RIEP have an ancient history. In our territory you can find rocks with petroglyps dating back thousands of years.
Riosucio is the nearest town and is famous for its cultural heritage and its bianual carnival of the devil. (next one january 2025). Riosucio can be reached by bus from Pereira, Manizales and Medellin. From Riosucio to Bonafont it is only a 15 minute busride.
Bonafont / Riosucio are of the beaten tracks for tourism. You will not find fancy tourist atractions, but you will find small farms, impressive nature and friendly people,
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
We have an multifuncional space with a great view and a decent internet connection. Several locals use our place a Coworking space.
Space for parking camper vans
We are 20 meters away from the square where campervans can be parked. There are no facilities to hookup to utility services.
Can possibly accept pets
We have two dogs that are used to other dogs. They are not very fond of cats.
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
Hours expected
About 25 hours a week. It doesn´t really matter if 6 days a few hours or a few full days. We will work something out so you have time to explore the surrounding area.
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They stayed 8 weeks and interacted with my workers and my friends. They teached and learned, they worked and enjoyed themselves, they stayed at the farm and they saw the surroundings. I think they… read more
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They stayed 8 weeks and interacted with my workers and my friends. They teached and learned, they worked and enjoyed themselves, they stayed at the farm and they saw the surroundings. I think they… read more
They stayed 4 weeks at my place and an other project I help managing in El… read more
.We had several profound discussions which i… read more
He is a fun and… read more
Also she interacted a lot with my workers learning about mushroom growing and… read more
After some researching, analyzing, brainstorming and a tour of the major grocery stores with Leonor and Francisco, we drafted a… read more
We shared some hard work, good meals, long discussions, nice trips and lots of fun.
He wanted to go up "El Nevado del Ruiz" so we made a day trip sharing the driving. I can fully recommend him as am honest, fun and hardworking Volunteer.
I really enjoyed working for him. I really felt useful and I had to use some Of my skills to achieve to project we had (building the windows and the doors for his cabinet).
If you you want more information about his project, I would suggest you to check his… read more
We planting, cooking, cleaning, and teaching.
Thanks for share your house, and every things.
He ve got a lot of project, so you can find what you prefer.
For more about her visit in my Blog… read more
I can fully recommend her to other hosts.
When I showed them some of the problems on my farm they really wanted to get involved and worked on research for alternative solutions and documented the different options. But beside the intellectual labor they did also did some bamboo… read more
It was a very satisfying week for both of us, I can definitely recommend him.
Both are designers and I took them two days on a trip through the region to get a feel for the architecture and customs. Then we sat down and discussed the ideas I had of transforming an old shipping container… read more
They stayed only a few days by the end of their 16 month around the world trip. But it where very gratifying days, we had lot of discussions about their trip and my projects.
Time did not… read more
