Construction & Renovation: North Bali is a volunteer placement in Lovina, from $570 a week per person with a $350 deposit. You help build, repair and paint local schools, kindergartens, playgrounds and community centres in the villages around Lovina and Singaraja. Stays run 1-12 weeks and suit travellers aged 18-38, flying into Denpasar. Start dates run from 1 November 2026.
Build, repair and paint local schools, playgrounds and community spaces around Lovina, on Bali's north coast.
Lovina
Bali
1 stop
You will be met at Denpasar airport during the scheduled pick-up times and driven across the island to Lovina on the north coast. Check in, settle into your room and meet the other volunteers.
Your welcome and orientation: an introduction to Indonesia, the house rules, the code of conduct and your paperwork, followed by a Balinese culture lesson. After lunch comes the project meeting, where you find out what the team is working on and get ready to start, then dinner.
After breakfast you plan the day's work with the coordinator. After lunch you head out to the project, a school, playground or community centre in the villages around Lovina, and work there until the evening: laying bricks and tiles, carpentry, painting and building, alongside local families and the other volunteers.
The weekend is yours. If you are staying on, Lovina's black-sand beaches, temples and markets are on the doorstep, and the local team will help you plan trips to the rice fields, cliffs and waterfalls in the hills behind. If this was your last week, it is time to pack and say your goodbyes.
Lovina is a quiet stretch of black-sand beaches and fishing villages on Bali's north coast. The villages around it and the town of Singaraja always have a community project that could use another pair of hands: a school to repair, a playground to rebuild, a library or community centre to renovate. This program puts you to work on them, alongside a local coordinator, local families and other volunteers, to give the children and families who use them safer, better places to learn and meet.
Much of the work is hard, physical labour: laying bricks and tiles, carpentry, painting, building paths and toilets, repairing school walls, making tables and chairs, and helping to build new classrooms. The other side is more artistic and relaxed: drawing and painting murals and games in kindergartens and primary schools. When it is needed, the team also renovates community centres and local homes. Ideas and initiative are always welcome.
Monday starts with your welcome and orientation: an introduction to Indonesia, the house rules and the code of conduct, then a culture lesson and a project meeting. From Tuesday to Friday you plan the day's work with the coordinator after breakfast, and after lunch you head out to the project and work there until the evening.
Evenings bring relaxed get-togethers with the other volunteers, and the weekends are free. Lovina's beaches, temples and markets are on the doorstep, and the local team will help you plan trips further afield.
Come with an open mind and realistic expectations. Life on a volunteer project is simpler and slower than at home: shared rooms, basic facilities, heat and humidity, and a culture with its own customs. Everyone feels a little out of place at first, and that is normal.
Before you travel, read the programme information we send you. When you arrive, the local team introduces you to the project, the house rules and local customs, and they are there to talk to if you feel homesick or unsure. Most volunteers find the first few days are the hardest, and the rest flies by.
We should always be healthy and maintain our fitness. However, it depends on the project you choose and you should always be ready to work.
Nothing formal. Pack modest, practical clothes that you do not mind getting dirty. On teaching and kindergarten projects, wear neat, casual clothes that cover your shoulders and knees. On construction and conservation projects, wear hard-wearing clothes and closed shoes you do not mind ruining, plus a hat and light long sleeves for the sun. Vest tops and short shorts are not allowed while you are working.
Away from the project, dress with respect for local customs, especially in villages and at religious sites. Your coordinator will tell you about any local rules when you arrive.
Your arrival transfer is included. You will be met at the airport and taken to your accommodation, so there is nothing to arrange for the journey in.
The departure transfer at the end, from your accommodation back to the airport, is not included. You can add it as an optional extra in your account, or make your own way.
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You need to be 18 or over, and there is no upper age limit. If you are over 65, we will ask for a medical clearance confirming you are fit for the work.
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