Vue d'ensemble

• Description

  We are Sally & Jerry, an English couple in our 50’s and 60’s - We have a beautiful home in rural Sri Lanka, in the hill country 11K from Kandy (the cultural capital) We run our home as a guest house, and we have a large 2.5 acre garden to tame and maintain. We have had the house for several years but have just moved out permanently and want very much to get the garden working well and to build a hen-house and lots of other projects and Ideas…. In return for your help, work, and advice we can offer you comfortable accommodation and a small kitchen to prepare your own food as well as jolly nice food both local Sri Lankan and English cooked by us or our staff.

• Type of help

  Gardening
  Building
  General Maintenance
  Help in the house
  Animal care
  Other
  Help with Computers / internet

• Help

  Really it will mostly be gardening, and maybe building walls, a hen house, bar-b-q, raised beds, Also shifting earth, planting things, fishing leaves out of the pool, maybe some marketing and social media work (if you have the skills)

• Languages spoken

  English and a tiny bit of French

• Accommodation

  We have a garden room, which is self contained, for day to day living and it sleeps 6 in a double bed and bunk beds… ideally we would like couples who don’t mind sharing….. and who are all prepared to work. It is all very comfortable and has an en-suite toilet, basin and shower and a little mini kitchen space with a little fridge, and kettle - but you also have access to the poolside kitchen and would normally cook food that we provide, together with the other volunteers - but twice per week we will invite you to supper with us and any guests, in the house.

• What else …

  Our house and Garden is really lovely and full of wildlife, we also have a large swimming pool you are welcome to use and there is great walking through the tea estate. There are frequent buses to Kandy from about 1K down the road….Kandy is a big and busy city with lots to do during the day… however this is definitely a place for people seeking peace and tranquillity - night life is at most, a game Scrabble and a good dinner or gazing at the milky way, surrounded by fireflies and listening to the Cicada’s. If you are a writer, a walker, and artist or a romantic; this may be for you!

• A little more information

  • Internet access

  • Limited internet access

  • We have pets

  • We are smokers

• Cultural exchange and learning opportunites

  We find that we have very interesting conversations with our volunteers, and whilst we are English we live in a house with Martin and Rani our Sri Lankan Tamil staff - and the local village is very typical of thistea growing area of the country.

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  Volunteering hours expected

  Maximum 5 hours a day, 5 days a week