Volunteers and Horses Make a Change for Children with Disabilities

Beschreibung der Tätigkeit

The activities our organization has planned can be divided in two topics– A1: Volunteering with the ‘’Program for free therapeutic riding for children with disabilities’’; A2: Volunteering with maintaining the facilities of the ranch where the organization and its horses are based; volunteering with construction of small projects. For more information regarding the tasks and activities, you can check on this link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y5ECKPOf2qfErOQcfaU6lzLZXQc7aDWW/view?usp=sharing and on our website: www.pqfbulgaria.org

Beitrag zu Unterbringung, Verpflegung und Reisekosten

Accommodation is in a small house in the village 10 mins away from the ranch. The house is equipped with kitchen, bathroom and WC. There is WiFi and a washing machine at the ranch where the activities take place. More about the living conditions we can provide upon request. Money for food, pocket money, also money for transport to the placement are included.

Fortbildung im Rahmen der Tätigkeit

Volunteering with the ‘’Program for free therapeutic riding for children with disabilities’’ is possible only after the volunteer passes successfully the internal training by one certified therapeutic riding instructor. The volunteers will be also trained how to take care of the horses. That includes basics in grooming the horses, leading them from and back from pasture, assisting the instructor during the exercises and during the riding sessions with disabled children, maintaining the ranch, feeding the horses and more.

Teilnehmerprofil

All of the following criteria are obligatory: Young people who are tolerant of children and young people with disabilities; Young people who are patient with others and with animals; Outdoor people who like nature and being outside most of the time; Young people who have no problem being around horses and dogs; Young people who don’t mind doing physical work; Young people who care for the environment and can cope with living in an eco-friendly facility; Young people who want to spend their volunteering time outside the city, in lower mountains, in a family-like atmosphere.

Wann

Insgesamt 8 Woche(n) im Zeitraum 01/04/2021 bis 30/09/2021

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Wo

2072 Kamenitsa, Mirkovo Municipality Bulgaria

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Gesucht werden Teilnehmer/innen aus

Albanien, Armenien, Österreich, Aserbaidschan, Bosnien und Herzegowina, Belgien, Bulgarien, Belarus, Zypern, die Tschechische Republik, Deutschland, Dänemark, Algerien, Estland, Ägypten, Griechenland, Spanien, Finnland, Frankreich, Georgien, Kroatien, Ungarn, Irland, Israel, Island, Italien, Jordanien, Libanon, Liechtenstein, Litauen, Luxemburg, Lettland, Libyen, Marokko, Moldova (Republic of), Montenegro, Nordmazedonien, Malta, die Niederlande, Norwegen, Polen, Palästina, Portugal, Rumänien, Serbien, Russian Federation, Schweden, Slowenien, die Slowakei, Syrian Arab Republic, Tunesien, die Türkei, Ukraine, das Vereinigte Königreich, Kosovo * UN resolution, British Antarctic Territory, Anguilla, Aruba, St. Barthélemy, Bermuda, Bonaire Sint Eustatius and Saba, Canary Islands, Curaçao, die Falklandinseln, Französisch-Guayana, Grönland, Guadeloupe, das Britische Territorium im Indischen Ozean, die Kaimaninseln, Saint Martin (french part), Martinique, Montserrat, Neukaledonien, Französisch-Polynesien, St Pierre and Miquelon, Pitcairn, Réunion, Saint Helena, die Turks- und Caicosinseln, French Southern and Antarctic Territories, Virgin Islands (British), Wallis und Futuna

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Themen der Aktivität

Soziale Herausforderungen

Umwelt- und Naturschutz

Gesundheit und Wohlbefinden

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Bewerbungsfrist

Bewerbungsfrist: 19/03/2021

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