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Hello guys, we are Ala and Lyndon!
Ideally located in Moalboal 5 minutes from Panagsama beach where you can see turtles and where the "Sardine Run" is located!
We have 3 children and we also take care of about 90 dogs and a few cats in full-time. They have all been saved from the street and we do our best to treat them and give them the love they deserve . At the beggining, we had only one shelter but that was not enough, so we opened a second one at our home. The big one welcomes about dogs 45 and the little one at our home about 35dogs with a few cats. Our goal is to take good care of them until they find there fur ever home.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Charity Work
Art Projects
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Help with Computers/ Internet
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
You will learn more about our history, those of the dogs we welcome, about our life here as a local family and how we were able to rebuild after the typhoon of 2021 which destroyed everything.
We will also be really happy to learn more about you, we are a friendly family who loves meet new people!
Projects involving children
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Help
Not receiving any assistance from the municipality, we are really grateful for the many tourists who visit us every weeks. Thanks to their donations, we can give the necessary care to the dogs. But now, we really wanna go further and welcome volunteers to help us on a daily basis.
Languages spoken
Cebuano: Fluent
English: Fluent
Tagalog: Fluent
Accommodation
We can offer to you a modest accommodation, for one or 2 people: there is currently a single room with a double bed, a fridge, kettle, fan, drinking water and private toilet. For the shower, we prefer to warn you anyway that for the moment you will benefit from a local experience with a Philippines shower : a bucket with cold water!
We received our first volunteers in January 2023, and they were delighted with what we had to offer them, but our goal is to finish the bathroom to provide the best possible experience for our volunteers. (Besides, any help for this will also be welcome if you are happy with it!)
What else ...
Daily task at the sanctuary! We start 7
am in the morning feeding them cleaning washing dog bowls and all cleaning stuff so mostly will be finish around 9:30am after that if there's no handy work you can also pet the dog cuddle them there's also walk in visitors coming inhouse volunteers can also show them around the sanctuary and at 12noon break time volunteers can go out for snorkeling or go to beaches restaurant then back again around 3pm for feeding after dogs will go out for a walk until 5pm ..
Volunteers can have 1 day off a week you can explore Moalboal do some activities
Any ideas or tips that can help the sanctuary to keep going will be much appreciated
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Space for parking camper vans
This host can provide space for campervans.
Can possibly accept pets
This host has said they are willing to accept those travelling with a pet.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
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Ala and Lyndon have big hearts, and the cause they work for is very meaningful. We realized the lives of animals in the Philippines are not always easy.
Ala and Lyndon were present and helpful even on our days off, and they… read more
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Ala and Lyndon have big hearts, and the cause they work for is very meaningful. We realized the lives of animals in the Philippines are not always easy.
Ala and Lyndon were present and helpful even on our days off, and they… read more
If you like dogs this is your chance to help them and live with them. Ala and Lyndon were great and made the stay very comfortable.
I will miss sleeping with the puppies, feeding the dogs and cats every day, talking to Lyndon the son, spending time in the shelter with the dogs.....
without… read more
The room is lovely and boasts its own outdoor area… read more
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The work Ala, Lyndon, Linda, Erwin and the other Filipino caretakers do is incredibly and we were so excited to spend time with the friendly dogs and cats :). We stayed at a room away from Ala and Lyndon directly at the shelter as there were already other volunteers at… read more
Ala, Lyndon and the kids are really kind and they are giving everything they own to the shelter and the animals. The dogs and cats are sooo lovely and well-treated.
The job was not hard and we had a lot of free time to visit Moalboal and the surroundings. The… read more
