Workaway placements?

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Hi /trv/, looking for some advice from people who have used this website.

I'm getting itchy travel feet. Ideally I'd want to go somewhere to be immersed in the real culture of the country, so I'd want to be working and living with local residents for a couple of months, however money is fairly limited and I'd be going alone. I'm female too, so obviously I wouldn't go to certain parts of the world but I thought I should mention it because of possible safety concerns even in more modern countries.

I've done something similar once before in India, but I was there with an organisation and a group of other English people so everything was quite safe and I had people there if something happened.

I've found this website- http://www.workaway.info which seems ideal for what I'm looking for. However I register and pay, I wanted to know if anyone here had had any experiences with this site, or similar schemes and whether there is anything I should know in advance.
Basically, I want to know more about what I'd be getting into, so if anyone has done anything like this, please share your experience!

Pic sort of related- I took in the middle of buttfuck nowhere in India.