They look for volunteers that help in all the things that needs to be done in such a house:

• Taking care of children (playing with them, giving them food, looking after them,helping them with their homework);
• Cleaning;
• Cooking (helping during the meals)
• Taking care of the garden;
• Preparing wood for the winter;
• Refurbishing works of a new building;
• Helping with honeybees.

Activties might vary according to the season, to the number of kids in the house (it might happen that some weeks the family does not host any kids) and the interests/attitudes of the volunteers.

Closest Airport: Genova Airport

Pick up: at Sestri Levante train station

Location: Castiglione Chiavarese 

Villa Villacolle is based live out in the countryside surrounded by nature and we live in Castiglione Chiavarese village.

The house is out of the village, in the mountain, facing the sea.

There is a bus stop at 3.5 kilometers from the house (15 minutes walking distance), where you can find also a little shop. Busses drive to Varese Ligure or to Sestri Levante, where there is a train station and all the main services.

Other places close to Villa VillaColle 

Varese Ligure It’s known as Round Village for the form of the piazza. It’s a certified organic village, in Val di Vara. There are many reasons for a trip to the upper Val di Vara, the green heart of the La Spezia territory, which has obtained the hallmark of valley of organic production: the first in Italy to understand the value of nature and naturalness. The public lighting of the streets in Varese Ligure runs on wind energy in the green spirit of the valley for eco-sustainable management of the territory, and the meat is certified with an organic hallmark, as is the milk.

Sestri Levante. Lying on the Mediterranean Sea, it is approximately 56 kilometres (35mi) south of Genoa and is set on a promontory. This once quiet fishing village is slowly turning into a tourist hotspot, developing an old and a new town. The town has two bays: Baia del Silenzio, the (Bay of Silence) and Baia delle Favole, (Bay of the Fables), and it is not far from the famous Cinque Terre,very beautiful villages by the coast.

Working hours

Villa Villacolle  can arrange with the volunteer the best timetable together. They can be flexible, but usually the family needs help in the morning and in the afternoon, and sometimes in the evenings.

The volunteers could carry out the voluntary services from 10:00 to 15:00 and then from 17.30 to 19.30, but the timetable might change according to the situations. In any case volunteers will not work more than 35 hours per week.

The familiy wishes the volunteers to be quite flexible concerning the hours as the timetable can often vary according to children needs.

Days off

The volunteer will have two free days (not necessarily Saturdays and Sundays) a week and two free days a month (for project with a minimum duration of 4 weeks).

Accommodation

The place is made of two houses, in one there is the family home, in the other there are rooms for guests and one room for the volunteers.

Blankets and bedlinen are already in the room. The family house has wi-fi as well.

Food 

The organization will offer the volunteeers 3 meals per day for the whole week. The volunteers might have meals by themselves or with the family according to the number of volunteers hosted.