KIVISAARE HORSE FARM

Kivisaare Farm hosts a lot of horse riding camps in summer. These camps participants are children and young people aged 8-17. One shift hosts 10-12 kids and lasts 5 full days. Then after 2 days break another shift begins. Children speak Estonian and Russian, only some of them can speak English. Camp program includes, horse riding training, learning about horse riding equipment and taking care of horses, biking and horse riding trips, swimming in the local lake, sport games, adventure trail, learning cooking and grilling, bonfire evenings, etc. Volunteer are asked to assist farm hosts to run all these activities and to help all cleaning between shifts. It includes taking care of horses, cleaning and washing them, cleaning and preparing horse riding equipment on one hand. On the other hand, after each camps is finished, all facilities have to be cleaned to be ready to host the new group. This involves washing and ironing bed linnes, vacuum-cleaning of the rooms and carpets, washing floors, etc. Volunteers can also organise various games and evening activities for children, go with children to horse and bike trips. Also volunteers will be asked to cut the grass and make hey time to time.