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Workaway: traveling as a volunteer

Workaway: traveling as a volunteer

July 2018 · 2 min read

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Workaway is a way to find free board and lodging in exchange of work, with the primary purpose of a reciprocal cultural exchange. It is an alternative to travel low cost, stopping for a while in a place, exploring the surroundings in the free time following the tips by the locals who know well the territory and usual itineraries that a tourist will never discover. In addition, as a necessity, you are forced to learn and practise the local language and share the experience with other volunteers from every corner of the globe. The site put into contact the host offering hospitality with the workawayers that are willing to help the landlord in the most diverse tasks. Normally they are required 5 hours per day for 5 days a week, but depending on the case may vary in more or less.

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Once enrolled at the site, giving some information about yourself, your skills and paid the annual fee that can be individual (€22) or for a couple (€29), you are ready to the research. You can view the offers by filtering them by country, locality and type of occupation. The host describes the kind of help he needs, usually simple things like babysitting, farms tasks, hostels, social, maintenance, practicing a language, gardening and more. You can read the reviews of the previous volunteers and see some pictures to get an idea of the place.

You have to be a little patience, the hosts do not always reply quickly, even often do not reply at all, so you have to widen your preferences to have more opportunities to get a reply. Also the dates chosen may not coincide with their needs and therefore it becomes necessary to be flexible or change destination maybe at the last moment.

We decided to use this means to test ourselves, living and sharing everyday life in close contact with people doing their job, but ready to give hospitality to a perfect strangers. To understand who you are, sometimes you have to get out of your comfort zone.

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