It is a great opportunity to work on a small farm, caring for animals and a perfect option for animal lovers who like to carring care of hourses, dogs, cats and chickens.
This volunteer program is especially suitable for:
Join our team looking after the horses, dogs, cats and chicken and learn about a peruan live in a small town close to the Lake Titicaca.
The program is designed for natural people with hourse experiance and academic art of riding interested people, who want to combine an
unique, inspiring learning and working experience with an unforgettable
time in Peru. The farm is rural location.
The farm is located at about 4000 meters high which means that everything is much more intense. Physical and mental strength is needed in this place. During the day the sun can be very strong but once it goes down it gets very cold.
Auto-sustainablility & organic agriculture:
Being already indespendent on water and electricity, we aspire to be as much as posible independent on food by the next 5 years. The program have a piece of land where can cultivate potatoes and veggies from the region and oats and alfalfa for the animals.
Animal Shelter:
Their are currently take care of eleven horses, two Alpacas, four sheeps, chicken, rabbits, a cat and 3 dogs. With the shelter we do provide a safe space for the animals, a place where they can live as natural as possible. We are an animal shelter, we do not ride horses. This program mainly do ground work and would like to prepare the horses to be able to work with children and help in therapy and coaching.
Production of native herbal products. The vision of this program is to connect humans with natura and life, to trust again and feel the wholenesss and holyness of every being.
Volunteers can use a kittchen and prepare their food together. Basic food will provided to the volunteers. This program is for volunteers who are looking to get into the peruan culture and life with other volunteers and the family. Important to know is that life in Peru is very simple.
Volunteers usually do help 5-6 hours a day, 5 days a week!
The Maintainance Rutine:
6am to 11am:
- bringing horses to the fields
- Cleaning horsedroppings, preparing food, carrying water
- Feeding dogs, cats, chicken
- Cleaning chicken stable, let chicken out in the garden
4.30pm-5.30pm:
- preparing the corrals for the horses
- bringing the horses in
- bringing chicken in
- feeding dogs and cats
Other tasks:
- we brush the horses
- take care of their hufs
- helping in the garden
During your free time you can visit other sities like Arequipa or natianal parks. If you take a longer weekend it is also possible to cross the border to visit Bolivia.