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You like to be around horses and work with them, this is for you!

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The experience

We are company that organizes riding tours of one week on the only national park of Portugal :)
We have 11 horses and 9 dogs.
We will need your help with the horses and stable management, if its need it the logistic of the activities and some help repairing or fixing something around the farm.
If your are someone that enjoys nature, like animals special horses and enjoy be around them, consider yourself proactive , we would like to receive you

What you offer

25 hours of help per week

Animal Care: Help look after and take care of animals.

What you get

1 day off per week

Shared Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.

Team Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other people.

Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.

Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.

Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

Pick Up: We will pick you up when you arrive, and take you to our property.

Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.

Basic Internet Access: Basic speed internet for you to work remotely

Requirements

Intermediate English

Between 18 and 30 years old

Only hosts solo volunteers (doesn’t accept couples or partners)

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

We would like to tell you that you don't need to have experience with horses to apply to this volunteering , you just need to enjoy horses and nature and be willing to learn.

We want to make sure that you know that will not be a local guide because for that you need to have special education and papers for doing it.

We will need your help with the stable management (cleaning boxes, give hay, give waters, gives the food , picking and leaving them at the fields), the horses management (grooming them, get them ready for the rides and keep them fit and in shape )

If its need it, we will ask you an hand with the logistic of the activities and to fix ou repair something around the farm.

If you know how to ride, we can arrange for you to get out with us and the guests if you don't know we can manage to give you some classes :P

Rules

You will sleep in our caravan, and you will use the main house for showers and WC