Pedagogic farm based on equine assisted interventions (2 places left)
AEDEQ asociación española de equinoterapias
AEDEQ, Asociación Española De Equinoterapias
Serrateix, Spain
Description
We need 1 volunteer for 8 months, and 1 for 12 months, to start as soon as possible, for projects already begun. Main activity is farming. We cultivate vegetable gardens, fruit trees, and take care of the natural environment surrounding our farm. Our animals, horses, chicken, dogs, and cats, live in freedom and are taken care without any violence, training for helping us in educational and therapeutic activities with people, principally young and adults, with disability or vulnerable. Also, we give services to the local rural community, cooperating with other organizations, and helping a disabled athlete in his Boccia trainings. We participate in cultural events, and conduct international scientific and pedagogic research. Social media posting is an important task, to recover our activities' portfolio, towards sustainability. Motivation and engagement are needed, to keep high quality standards in our delicate tasks, with full respect of people's and animals welfare.
Accommodation, food and transport arrangements
Volunteers are accommodated in Berga, a small town in the Pyrenees hills, in a flat with 5 rooms (3 double) for 6 volunteers, with all the tools and services of a modern flat, including high speed connection. We take care of local transportation, and all the flat supplies + give €180 of Pocket Money, and €150 of Food Allowance + some extra food from our farm or recycling and processing activities. Days-off are normally on Mondays and another day in the week, by rotation.
Training during the activity
On Arrival Training and Intermediate evaluation with the National Agency Training with horses with no violence at the farm. First aids. Domestic economy and sustainability. Activities with the disabled.
Participant profile
Motivation and engagement are required, because there is a great personal growth involved in the activities with horses without violence. It is not easy. Volunteers should be clean, ordered, punctual, polite, sensitive, reliable, peaceful, and enthusiastic about learning the gardening and the horsemanship tasks, which are, later, applied in the activities with the disabled and vulnerable people who come to the farm. Social Media skills are welcome, willingness to learn and apply them is required. Spanish A2 and English B2 level is required. Experience in farming and with animals is required.
Activity dates
A total of 32 week(s) during the period 01/03/2024 to 31/05/2025
Activity location
Masía Cal Taulé s/n, Serrateix, Spain
Activity type
Individual volunteering
Looking for participants from
Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden
Activity topics
Environment and natural protection
Health and wellbeing
Education and training
Deadline for applications
Application deadline: 31/03/2024 23:59