Kempes Public Hippotherapy center

Name: Kempes Public Hippotherapy center
Start: 2016-03-01
End: 2019-01-01
Location: Córdoba, Argentina

Code: 89df9256-3306-11e6-b3d5-005056b7444b Copied

Argentina Youth activities People with disabilities Social work Youth activities People with disabilities +1 Permanent

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

This hippotherapy center is located in a stadium, the staffs is composed by an interdisciplinary team dedicated to give an specialized treatment to each patient. They work with the movements of a horse to provide carefully graded motor and sensory input. This helps the patients to improve neurological functions and sensory process, which can be generalized to a wide range of daily activities

💼 What the programme involves

To assist therapists & teachers To help with everyday care of the horses Accompanying patients during initialization stage. Interact with the patient´s parents/tutors, etc. Help the veterinary with the horses’ medical review. Get involved with daily team activities and many others. When volunteers arrive to the project they help to feed and brush horses to be ready for the working day. They receive the patients and help during the treatment, they help taking notes about all the excersizes and the development of each patient. At the end of the day, the have to tidy up the stables so horses can rest until the following day. Somedays there are also some mainteinance activities that volunteers have to help with such us painting, fixing the stables, taking care of the plants, etc. Every day the routin is similar, but with different patients.

🏠 Accommodation on site

We agree on student residence, but if the student wants to live in a family, we could manage to offer that option too, no problem J

🍲 Food

2 meals a day are at the charge of the association

📍 About the location

Its located at the local stadium. Its a middle-low class neighborhood.

🎒 Leisure activities

It’s a green area in the city, so volunteers can go horse back riding or play sports at the park. Its also located close to the city center so there are many tours and cutural activities that volunteers can join after work, such us: Museums/ art galleries, listen to bands, concerts, restaurants, bars, etc.

⚠️ Requirements

Please, join a CV (spanish or english) to your application form. Projects usually start on Mondays.

ℹ️ Additional information

The project is open all year long. During summer holidays (December and January) the activity is very low due to high temperatures.

First week is dedicated spanish lessons.

Interested in this project? Create your account and apply online.

📅 Available sessions

HP2

05/07/2017 → 31/12/2018

Closed

0 / 4

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HIPPOTHERAPY CENTER LUCHESSE

01/03/2016 → 30/11/2016

Closed

0 / 2

♂ 0/1 ♀ 0/1