Each year Heartbeet Lifesharing welcomes approximately twelve volunteers from the United States and around the world. Volunteers live and work together with adults with developmental disabilities and share in all aspects of community life, including work on our farm and in the garden, preparing meals and cleaning house, helping with personal hygiene, and taking part in cultural and social events in the local area. Flexibility, enthusiasm, patience, respect for others, and openness to different lifestyles and different ways of seeing the world, are all essential qualities for a successful volunteer experience.