Két Torony Nagyszékelyi Faluegylet
Nagyszékely, Hungary
⭐️ Activity Title
VILLAGE & COMMUNITY - gardening* animals* eco-crafts* culture*
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🔷 Activity Details
Description
Are you interested in NATURAL LIFE in a COMMUNITY? Would you like to learn about self-sufficiency and creative solutions? Come to a cosy Hungarian village and become one of our individual volunteers! Spend minimum 1, maximum 2 months here in August-September 2026. We have 5-6 volunteers at a time, they help at several family-size ecological farms and at public places. You can choose to experience and learn about:
1. Traditional ANIMAL KEEPING at a farm with goats, milking and cheese making.
2. Natural GARDENING in the forest garden and FOOD PROCESSING for the winter.
3. Ecological BUILDING, construction and renovation, working with wood/ metal/ cob.
4. Helping the Blue House CULTURAL CENTER with organisation and maintenance.
5. LEADING PROGRAMS for adults or children like sports, games, music, languages.
6. COMMUNICATION with photography, film making, story telling,
7. CREATION of ART.
More details, photos, videos: https://falusifortelyok.hu/volunteering/
Accommodation, food and transport arrangements
Volunteers’ House is a traditional cob building, surrounded by a garden, with the pleasant shadow of old walnut trees. The house has a central common kitchen and a bathroom. There are 4 bedrooms. The terrace space serves as an outside living room. Volunteers cook for themselves. They can get some local ingredients, and once a week go for shopping to the town of Tamási 25 kms away. We provide a bicycle to get around in the village. There are plenty of community gatherings for reflection and fun. Look at this 9-minute video from 2021 to get inspired! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrgQNMWkfGA
Training during the activity
Volunteers get introduced to activities of self-sufficiency. They can discover healthy, natural, sustainable lifestyles in a friendly community:
*Learn how to produce food from experts of ecological gardening.
*Discover a kind of animal keeping that respects animals.
*Get insights to natural building technologies.
*Try various handicrafts.
*Practice traditional physical activities like archery, folk dance or horse riding.
Volunteers can discover their personalities and talents. They can acquire basics of permaculture.
Participant profile
We expect our volunteers to be open-minded. Ready to share experiences in a small community. Come to us if you want to spend 1-2 months in a quiet, peaceful Hungarian village with 400 inhabitants. In the village there is an informal, organic network of ecologically oriented people, including a few people in their twenties - it is good if you are interested to get to know them! Be ready to help at partly self-sufficient, ecological, family-sized farms, and join their gatherings. You should communicate in English considerably well. One of the four volunteers is usually a person from Hungary, and the others come from abroad.
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🔑 Key Information
Activity dates
From 03/08/2026 to 30/09/2026
Activity location
28. Ady Endre street, Nagyszékely, Hungary
Activity type
Individual volunteering
Looking for participants from
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden
Activity topics
Environment and natural protection
Health and wellbeing
Creativity and culture
Deadline for applications
Application deadline: 12/07/2026 23:59
Project code
2025-1-HU01-ESC51-VTJ-000348022
🔗 Official Project Page
https://youth.europa.eu/solidarity/opportunity/53025_en
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