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What is work exchange all about?

Hovos is a marketplace for connecting 'hosts' to 'volunteers'. A host needs help with something and in return for this offers accommodation and meals to the volunteer.

Examples of a typical host

  • French owner of a chateau needs help with maintaining the large garden
  • Family in Rome needs an au pair to care for their child
  • Spanish family wants to learn English

Typically volunteers offer their help and in this way reduce their travel expenses. Many of them are budget travelers, but they are also interested in meeting other people in other cultures and gaining experience in doing something.

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Volunteers

As a volunteer you offer a helping hand in exchange for accommodation & meals.
Decrease your travel expenses and go further on your budget.

Meet locals while you travel and experience their unique culture as you help with their chores and projects.

Hosts who need help with their projects

Hosts

As a host you offer accommodation & meals to travelers, who help you with a project in return.

Whatever projects you need to complete, our volunteers can help!

Create your project profile and find volunteers today.

Volunteers willing to help you out.

Costs

Traveler Membership: $25/Year This gives travellers full access to all hosts as well as a FREE Travel SIM. However, they can create an account for free so they can start ‘favoriting hosts’ and build their profile - but advanced features such as contacting hosts will be unavailable until they become members.

Host Membership: $0/Year It is free for hosts to sign up and they can begin contacting travelers immediately.

Read our hosts' blogs and get inspired

animal care | art projects | child care / au pair | boat handlers | charity work | child care | computer help | construction | eco projects | elderly care | farm work | forest work | hostel support | fruit picking | gardening | house sitting | help in the house | internet support | language practice | maintenance tasks | pet sitting | music practice | spiritual projects | teaching projects | tourist support