Experience rural life and help with a horseback riding project in the highlands of Amazonas, Peru
Take Note:
*️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️We do not accept volunteers that smoke. Past volunteers have ruined it for everyone.
*️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️Everyone contributes to the purchase of toilet paper, coffee and laundry service.
Exchange:
*We provide a shared volunteer room, hot water shower, intercultural living environment and close contact with nature.
*Expected volunteer work is 20hrs per week (we work by targets, not hours per day)
While we ask all our volunteers to be flexible enough to work in a wide variety of projects it is also important to indicate which of the projects below you would be interested in focusing your volunteer work on.
Horse Needs:
*️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️Photo sessions in real horse expeditions in Peruvian farming communities
*️️️️️️️Route development / maintenance
*️️️️️️️️️️️️Documentary development
*️️️️️️️️️️️️First aid training for rural communities
*️️️️️️️️️️️️Farriery practice and training for rural communities
*Web developer
*️️️️️️️️️️️Taming and natural horse training
*️️️️️️️️️️Digital design development for educational material
*️️️️️️️️️️️️Equine vet assistance or Equine vet practice (castration)
*️️️️️️️️️️️️Grant writing, Marketing and Networking applied to our sustainable and infrastructure project development
*️️️️️Saddle and equipment maintenance
*️️️️️Feeding, grooming and exercising of horses
Domestic Needs:
*️️️️️️️Cooking
*️️️️️️️Home cleaning / organizing
*️️️️️️️Animal care
Building / Maintenance:
(we will be working with natural materials as much as possible, if you know or have experience in natural building please let us know!)
*️️️️️Compost
*Gardening
*️️️️️Stables for horses
*️️️️️Chicken coup
*️️️️️Building up home
*️️️️️Electrical work
*️️️️️Plastering walls
Land:
*️️️️️Clearing of community paths
*️️️️️Preparing land for plants (both domestic and rural)
*️️️️️Pulling weeds / removing stones
*️️️️️Harvesting
-We cannot be held liable for any accidents that occur during your time with us, or while traveling to/from our location.-
Thanks for reading and we hope to hear from you soon!
~ Henry and Jessica
My wife Jessica and I (Henry) are an international couple with our 2 children, living in the North of Peru. I am a medical veterinarian by trade, specializing in horses. Jessica has her education in preventative wellness and is a stay at home Mom raising our daughters. Horseback riding is our main scope, but family rural life requires a wide variety of volunteer profiles to keep us evolving.
Our volunteer opportunity (and our home) is in the village of Montevideo. Which is a small village approximately 2 hours away from the larger city of Chachapoyas.
Notes:
*️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️ we ask all potential volunteers to do a video call meeting. This helps YOU get to know us, and US to know you more.
*️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️ both you and I reserve the right to quit the volunteer agreement at any time and for any reason. For this reason we ask all our volunteer to have a back up plan.