Work trade is a great way to get to know people as well as being able to offer service to our sangha, while working together to co-create our community. There are many areas at the camp where you can be in service, in exchange for a tuition reduction. It’s a great way to connect with others, and help make camp possible as well as affordable. Basically you’ll be asked to work each day for about 3 hours, usually in 1 shift, for which you get $30 off per day.
Full Camp Tuition with Work Trade
$350 – if paid in full before April 19th
$400 – if paid after after April 19th
Weekend Only - We only have a few of these and they tend to go fast
2 lunch prep shifts (sat & sun)
$165 – if paid in full before April 19th
$190 – if paid after after April 19th
3 dinner prep shifts (fri, sat & sun)
$135 – if paid in full before April 19th
$160 – if paid in full before April 19th
Work Trade Goddess
Christina Coffman (808) 270-3136 worktrade@sufishawaii.orgWork Exchange Positions
Here are the work opportunities for you to think about, see which area you may enjoy working in the most. Keep in mind that positions do fill up fast, so please let me know as soon as you can, what position you are most interested in, and be sure to include your second and third choices. We will do our best to honor your choices.
ON THE LIGHTER SIDE
MEAL PREP – Do you like to help prepare delicious meals, are you handy with a knife and know your way around a kitchen? If so, meal prep has openings on the breakfast, lunch and dinner shifts. Early riser? Breakfast prep is usually from 6 AM till 9. You will help prepare delicious meals then serve them. Lunch meal prep is approx 10 AM-1 PM and dinner meal prep is from 3 PM-6. Confirmation of times will be confirmed with the cooks when we arrive at camp.
If you live on island and can bring your own knife (labelled) and a cutting board for your own use in meal prep it would be appreciated. If on breakfast, please make sure you bring an alarm clock (or two) to ensure being on time.
MEAL CLEAN UP – Or do you prefer to help clean up after mealtime, collect dishes and run them thru the dishwasher, wash pots and pans and put food away, or perhaps mopping the floors? Breakfast , lunch and dinner clean up shifts are also available.
KIDSCAMP – Do you love children and want to spend time with the gifted group of sufi children. From arts and crafts to plays and ball games, waterfall swims and the other field trips to beautiful places. Kids camp is really a wonderful experience for both children and adults. Even if you don’t sign up for this one, I recommend a trip to kidscamp to soak in the energy at some point during camp. PLEASE NOTE – Due to the timing of this camp, we are not expecting many children, and may not need any helpers here. Please do put this down if this is where you are most called, but be sure to tend to your 2nd and 3rd choices, as this is most like where we will place you.
TEMPLE CREW – This position requires you to be at camp by noon on Thursday May 10th, between noon and 1, to help decorate the temple. You will decorate Thursday afternoon and evening and Friday morning and afternoon, then clean the temple alternate days throughout the week, then help take all the decorations down and pack them up on the last day. It is best that you are comfortable working up on a ladder. If you have cloth and banners to bring, this is always helpful and appreciated.
INVENTORY – If you would prefer to do most of your work before and after camp, with (2-3) extra shifts where needed during the camp to equalize the hours with the other positions you could be on our inventory team. This group arrives at camp by noon the day before camp, Thursday May 10th, between noon and 1, and unpacks all the camp and kitchen supplies, washes and puts them away. There is some lifting involved so it is best you are in good physical condition and have a strong back. Pack up starts the day before camp ends. you would start packing up all the supplies and re-inventorying them, finishing the pack up after the morning program on Friday. We need to be out of the camp by about 2 PM on Friday, and all inventory people must stay to the very end. Many hands make for light work.
STRONG BACKS REQUIRED
WASHROOMS – There are washrooms to be beautified, then cleaned daily and supplies maintained. This job requires you to be at camp early on Friday to prepare the washrooms, followed by cleaning and maintaining during the afternoon breaks each day, and staying until the washrooms are cleaned and locked up on our final day. There will be one woman for the 2 women’s washrooms and one man for the 2 men’s washrooms. This position requires the applicant to be in good physical condition and to have a strong back.
PHYSICAL PLANE – This position requires a strong back and no fear of physical labor! The physical plane team starts the day before camp, Thursday May 12th in the morning at 9am, loading all of the camp supplies from the storage container into a large truck (or 2) and hauls it all to the camp and unloads it. The team plays a large part in converting the Y into our little piece of heaven for the week. There are large tents to erect, electrical and sound system to be installed in the temple, beds to be moved out of a dorm to create space for the healing temple and on and on. Then they get to reverse the process at the end of camp, staying until the very end, then loading the container from the trucks. Handyman skills are greatly appreciated.
TENT CREW – this position will do a great majority of their work starting Thursday May 10th, the day before camp and into the evening on the first day of camp and thru the weekend as campers arrive. It is great if you have experience with tarping tents to withstand torrential downpours and the island winds. This position will put up a variety of tents and tarp them to keep the campers dry. Assist where needed throughout the week and gather tarps, poles, pegs, ropes and pack them up the last day.
Once you have decided on the position you would be most suited for and most enjoy working in, you will need to decide on which shift you would prefer. All jobs mean missing some programming. Here is an outline of an approximate schedule based on past years (this years schedule has not been set yet), which may help you on deciding a time slot you would prefer to work in.
Sample Schedule
6:00 am Meditation
7:00-8:15 Yoga
8:15 Breakfast
9:00 Bajans, devotional singing
9:45-12:45 Morning Program
1:00 PM Lunch
2:00-4:30 Nature Interlude (Break)
4:40 Sunset Zikr
6:15-8:00 Dinner
8:00 Evening Program
