Projet de volontariat dans un refuge pour chevaux au Pérou

Name: Projet de volontariat dans un refuge pour chevaux au Pérou
Start: 2020-01-01
End: 2025-12-31
Location: Chucuito, Peru

Code: 939a8134-35f4-11ea-8b8c-00505603f1ab Copied

Peru Farming Youth activities Manual work Farming Youth activities +1 Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

Located in a small village with a beautiful view over the Lake Titicaca, we are establishing a sanctuary for horses. We want to provide a space for horses, where they can live as natural as possible. Our vision is to connect people with horses in a different way, a relationship with respect, trust and zero violence.
We are building our infrastructures, taking care of our horses but also other animals like dogs, cats and chickens and we are also trying to get as independent as possible by cultivating alfalfa and oat to feed our animals.

We use riding pads and bit less bridles for riding. We do not offer ridings for volunteers who do not have experience with this type of riding.

We also would like to create, in the future, a heathy and peaceful space where people can come enjoy nature, heal and recuperate with the presence of the horses.

💼 What the programme involves

- Taking care of the animals (18 horses, 4 dogs, 1 cat, 6 chickens): feeding, cleaning, educating, …
- Building the sanctuary and the house at our site, Atoj Cayo.
- Maintaining the current house where we all stay: cleaning, repairing, gardening, building.
- Agriculture: starting the cultures and the farming: harvesting, fertilizing the soil with horse droppings, …

Other skills:
- Marketing on the internet for our shelter (Website, Facebook page, …)

🏠 Accommodation on site

Our place is very simple and beautiful. The hourse where we live is a 100 years old. We have very simple rooms, each with two beds. The rooms are in the main house with seperate entrances. There is no heating and it can get very cold at night. The bathrooms (toilet & shower) are outside of the builing and is also very simple. Hot water is available. There's also a kitchen and living room only for the volunteers where you can cook and relax.

🍲 Food

The lunch is offered, vegetarian options available.

📍 About the location

The Puno department is located in south east of Peru. East of our village Chucuito, is located the Titicaca lake, shared with Bolivia. We are located at 3 850 meters high in altitude, up the mountains it goes until 4 000 meters high. This means that the climate is very cold and dry. You need to prepare yourself before arriving by acclimatizing.
The capital of our department is Puno (3 827 meters) with an annual temprature of 8 degrees celcius. Puno is seen as the folklorics city in Peru, with more than 300 different types of danses.
At the lake you can find several floating islands like Amantaní, Taquile, and Uros.

We are located 30 minutes from Puno.
The closest airport from Puno is Juliaca.

🎒 Leisure activities

Yes, we are located in the mountains (Cordillera de los Andes) with a view and direct access to the Titicaca lake. There's a lot of trails to the mountains and the surrounding villages.
There are floating islands on the lake, that are beautiful to visit and Bolivia is not that far either. Puno has markets, restaurants and a lot of traditional celebrations!

ℹ️ Additional information

5 days of work per week, two days off are given. 5 to 6 hours of work a day.
Every day is more or less the same, hours and work can differ depending on how many volunteers are present and what work needs to be done.

From 5.30 to +/- 10 am
- Feeding the horses and the dogs
- Getting the horses up to the fields
- Checking the fences, cleaning and taking out bad weeds if needed
- Cleaning the farmyard
- Preparing food for the evening (horse's mix, putting hay in the nets)

More: cleaning the bridles and riding pads, helping to build the shelter and the house up the fields, harvesting the cultivations, helping with the tours, general maintenance of the house, taking care of the other animals, …

From 5 to 6 pm
- Getting the horses back down in to the farmyard
- Feeding the animals
Day done!