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Work with your hands in a stunning mountain sanctuary. You'll help with gardening, pruning, fence repair, and exciting DIY projects, from animal enclosures to off-grid improvements. Ideal for practical, self-motivated people who enjoy independent work, learning new skills, and seeing real results at the end of each day.
15 hours of help per week
Farming: Plant crops, sow seeds and help in outside tasks.
Painting & Decorating: Help with painting or decorating the property facilities.
Building & Repairing: Help with a wide range of repairs or building.
Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens
2 days 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.
Tent: You will sleep in a tent at a camping site.
Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.
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
Intermediate Spanish or Intermediate English
Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers
Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa
We're an Anglo-Spanish family running a small, registered non-profit horse and animal sanctuary on the edge of a quiet mountain village in the province of Málaga, Spain. We live a mostly off-grid, simple life in a single yurt on the sanctuary land, alongside our two daughters (born 2015 and 2019).
Our mission is animal welfare and education, with a particular focus on ethical, force-free horsemanship. Because we're small and volunteer-run, we rely on volunteers to help keep the sanctuary going, supporting our family life, caring for the animals, and maintaining the land so the charitable work can continue.
You'll usually share a room in our village house (a 15-minute walk from the sanctuary). Private rooms may be available in quiet periods. Foster or resident dogs may be present in the house.
When possible, optional training in our force-free horse training methodology.
We don't have a budget for volunteer food, so we keep help to a maximum of 15 hours per week, this way you have the time and energy to cook, rest, and enjoy the mountains.
Depending on your interests and our week-to-week needs, tasks can be combined. Other roles we sometimes open (secondary for now, but possible depending on the volunteer mix) include:
Small animal care (rabbit colony, guinea pigs, dogs, cats)
Land, DIY and maintenance (pruning, gardening, fence repairs, small building projects)
Family support and home help around the yurt (cleaning, organizing, food prep)
Childcare for our life-schooled daughters
Communal cooking (vegetarian/vegan, potluck-style)
