Volunteers Opportunities

The volunteers will be placed with an individual farmer to learn his/her methods of production. For these programs it is expected that the volunteer will work with the farmer for an entire season to get a strong understanding of the methods. There will be some opportunity to compensate him/her for the time spent working.

These volunteers will be involved in one aspect of processing or production during the height of the harvest and processing/production season, dependant upon arrival date.

3. Educational Seminars

All volunteers (both those in the apprentice program and those in the intro to production/processing program) will gather together one to two times per month for a full-day seminar that focuses on topics appropriate to that time period (such as olive oil production in December) or topics that are more academic in nature and not covered through apprentice program (such as distribution of organic foods in Greece or the state of organic food in the EU). Seminars may include site visits and volunteers are expected to assist with the daily tasks for the site they are visiting.

4. Research opportunities

MedASH co-operates with universities and research institutes around Greece that can offer institutional support for research opportunities. This option is available for students interested to carry out undergraduate or postgraduate research during their voluntary work. Applications must be made well in advance in order to receive further information and complete a research agreement form. The deadline for finalising research projects is 1 st May. More information is available upon individual request.