Help in horse rescue center and positive horsemanship in Sardinia, Italy

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  Description

  Please read everything before to contact me.
  
  Hi there! My name is Jessica, I am 29 years old and I manage my Horse Rescue Center and Animal Sanctuary in Sardinia (Italy), a beautiful island in the middle of the Mediterranean.
  1) MISSION AND PHILOSOPHY
  We mostly host horses, but also other pets and farm animals who were rescued and recovered from difficult situations, giving them a new life, away from exploitation.
  The main mission has been to create a peaceful and harmonious place for people and animals through an equal, empathic and conscious partnership.
  -Through the educational activities involving the animals we promote an approach where the relationship we create with them is experienced as a support for personal growth, aimed at the improvement of psycho-physical well-being of both animal and human.
  This approach translates into a holistic relationship with the animal in which the role of the human is to accompany the animal to discover itself, aiming at creating autonomous individuals with high self-esteem, competent in relationships and in the various challenges of life. The human being will not give orders and commands but will be a companion always ready to inspire.
  
  2) ACTIVITIES
  We offer various services and activities: knowledge, relationship and communication activities with horses and other animals, lessons in freedom with horses, pension and education of horses and dogs, partnerships with community of people with fewer possibilities, homeschooling organisations, summer camps for children, pet therapy.
  Sometimes we also host and organize music events and workshops, juggling, self-production markets, holistic events, yoga, reiki, meditation, book presentation and so on.
  
  3) DAILY ROUTINE
  
  Summer: when is hot, in the morning we start earlier like 7.00 and finish around 10.00, in the evening start at 18,30 and finish around 20.30. In the middle you can have free time for travel, stay or work.
  
  Autumn-Spring: usually we start around 8.00 and finish 11.00 and in the evening start around 16.00 and finish around 18.00.
  
  Winter : is more difficoult here to have precise hours, if is raining a lot, we wait and in the moment that finish we start to work maybe with some stop .
  
  -Dipends on the period the life here can be different, sometimes is so full of activities,
  but most of the time is a relaxing place where you can know and stay with animals.
  
  
  4) VOLONTEER
  
  This project can live thanks to you and other volonteer, im alone with all the animals, the organization and activities, and is so difficolut for me to care of everything;
  thanks to volonteer I can have the possibility to organize some activity and menage the social media for find a way to provide at the animals.
  For this is foundamental that the period that you said will be precise.
  
  
  
  I'm available for any proposals of other enriching activities.
  
  Send me your EMAIL address when you contact me thanks :)

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Art Projects

  Language practice

  Help with Eco Projects

  Teaching

  Gardening

  DIY and building projects

  Animal Care

  Farmstay help

  Babysitting and creative play

  Creating/ Cooking family meals

  Help around the house

  General Maintenance

  Help with Computers/ Internet
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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  Who come to stay with us will live the workaway experience in the beautiful countryside of South Sardinia.
  You will learn Sardinian culture and cusine as we offer you delicious traditional (vegetarian) meals. You can learn italian language.
  After few days you will understand how to manage the farm and the animals here. We have many animals and you will learn how to read animal behaviours and how to properly interact with them.
  
  If it is your wish, there is the possiblity also to take lessons with a professional teacher who will guide you in discovering the relationship with the horses.

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  Projects involving children

  This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.

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  Help

  Here in South Sardinia we welcome people of all backgrounds, as our daily routine requires several skills:
  
  We ask our travellers to help us in the daily farm tasks which includes keeping all the areas clean (paddocks, entrance, house, garden) and functioning. Sometimes there are minor reparation to be done (fences, slowfeed nets etc...).
  
  We need help from our workawayer for the animal care. This means mainly feeding horses, ponies, goats, dogs, cats. Our animals are loved and we want the best for them, to keep them healthy and happy. We ask our workawayers to help us fulfill our mission.
  
  During summer season we host summer camps with kids. In those months we welcome workawayers who could help us with the children and preparing activities for them.
  
  We are not a business activity, we are a no profit association that can survive just thanks to the donation of paople that love animals, and some visit here and activity with horses with a free donation.

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  Languages

  Languages spoken
  Italian: Fluent
  English: Intermediate
  Spanish: Beginner

  This host offers a language exchange
  This host has indicated that they are interested in sharing their own language or learning a new language.
  You can contact them directly for more information.
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  Accommodation

  -We have tre tipe of accomodation :
  1)a room with big bed for your own, where usually we host couples and friends but you can ask for this if you need more privacy.
  2) an open room upstars that is close with tends and it can be in sharing with other people.
  Both have shared toiletwith the other volonteer.
  
  3) camper in the sanctuary.
  
  
  We eat vegetarian or vegan.

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  What else ...

  Few minutes from the house you can visit the city center, where you can see the park and the castle. You can also take the train or bus and in 1 hours you can reach Cagliari or Oristano.
  You can also visit the waterfall in Villacidro.
  For the other places is a bit difficolut with bus, if you want move a lot is better ask for rent a car.
  Remember that is not a vacation in Sardinia, if your most interest is to travel or visit the beach and not stay with animals maybe you have to search another host.
  Thank you a lot for read until here, write me if you are really interested to this project.

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  A little more information

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    Internet access

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    Limited internet access

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    We have pets

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    We are smokers

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    Can host families

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  Can host digital nomads

  We have internet connection (wifi) at home where travellers are usually accommodated. At the sanctuary there is no wifi, but most of internet connections for cell phones are working well.

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  Space for parking camper vans

  We have potential space for mobile homes. Let us know in your presentation message if you travel with your home!

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  More than two

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  Hours expected

  Maximum 5 hours a day, 5 days a week

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