Help us at our vegan animal sanctuary in Suchan, Slovakia

Availability

  2024 

 Min stay requested: at least 2 weeks

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  • Description

    Description

    We accept last minute volunteers, lomg terms, short terms, minimum stay is 10days though. We are also looking for long-term volunteers!

    Since we had our baby in june 2022, we need volunteers more than ever to help us take care of our nonhuman babies. 🐑🐇🐐🐕🐔

    Looking for an adventure? In summer 2024 we would like to move, well, we are not sure where to yet. But we are considering moving abroad and selling our properties in Slovakia (that you will read about in the description, I am not going to change it yet, in case we change our minds and decide to stay). Anyways, we are going to need many helpers to help us travel and move to a new place with all our animals. I imagine it as a few days long journey, kind of nomadic, with many stops for the animals...we are thinking about moving to France or Italy. This decision is sad for us and we are thinking of abandoning our home and dreams because of the political situation in our beautiful home country that has been kidnapped by our current government. We are afraid and worried about the future in Slovakia.

    We still need help over the winter in the sanctuary im Sucháň!

    Original description:
    We are a vegan couple from Slovakia that met in the main town (Bratislava) and shortly after decided to leave it together and find a home in the beautiful nature of middle Slovakia. We found amazing old secluded settlement in the woods and knew it's the perfect home for us. It will take us few years to finish the reconstructions and to move there. We also plan to build a retreat centre there. For the time we'll be reconstructing we bought a nice countryside house in the village Sucháň, were we currently live and somehow started a vegan rescue farm. :) Ooops. Currently we have 4 male goats, 2 female goats, 3 rams, two sheep, 5 rabbits, 3 roosters and two dogs.

  • Types of help and learning opportunities

    Types of help and learning opportunities

    Art Projects
    Language practice
    Help with Eco Projects
    Gardening
    DIY and building projects
    Animal Care
    Farmstay help
    Babysitting and creative play
    Creating/ Cooking family meals
    Help around the house
    General Maintenance
  • UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve

    UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve

    UN goals
    No poverty
    Zero hunger
    Good health and well-being
    Quality education
    Gender equality
    Clean water and sanitation
    Affordable and clean energy
    Decent work and economic growth
    Industries, innovation and infrastructure
    Reduce inequality
    Sustainable cities and communities
    Responsible consumption and production
    Climate action
    Life below water
    Life on land
    Peace, justice and strong institutions
    Partnerships for the goals
  • Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    We promise a lot of love from our animals, for us they are the best therapists. :) We'll teach you how to make a lot of delicious vegan dishes, and help you reconnect with the nature and yourself. We own a lot of art supplies which we'll also gladly share with you. We often recycle things and give them a new life, you'll learn to create lot of things yourself at home, which saves nature and money. :) And something tells me after u'll be leaving us, u can start a fence building business, as we need to make new fences all the time because of our animals... <3

  • Projects involving children

    Projects involving children

    This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.

  • Help

    Help

    Helpers needed!

    Currently we need help with following projects:
    • ANIMAL CARE - daily animal routine takes around 4-5hours a day for 1 person
    Animal care includes
    ▪︎cleaning the stables daily
    ▪︎cleaning the dry goats and sheep's enclosure few times a day
    ▪︎cleaning the rooster house
    ▪︎feeding all the animals twice a day
    ▪︎providing a clean water and hay for the animals throughout the day
    ▪︎playing with the animals
    ▪︎ helping with animals that need a special treatment, hooves trimming, wool shearing - don't worry, unless you are a pro zootechnitian, you'd be helping to hold the animals or distract them only :)
    ▪︎giving them a lot of love and while doing so, you can also brush their furry coats :)
    ▪︎and probably much more that I forgot.. oh, yes, watching the animals which aren't supposed to meet or stay alone together. Like our rooster Coco who likes to attack rabbits and Charlie (dog) for fun, but sometimes it may lead to fight. Coco is good with the people and often hangouts with us also indoors, it's just he needs to show the other animals he is the boss here. :)
    ▪︎cleaning the house and moping the floors


    • protecting plants and 🌳trees from the animals 🙈

    • renovation works on the secluded settlement

    HOUSE CLEANING
    ▪︎Keeping the house (shared space) clean
    ▪︎Doing the dishes
    ▪︎Cleaning the shared bathroom and your rooms

    WE APPRECIATE HELP WITH COOKING, BABYSITTING, OR HELPING MORE AROUND THE HOUSEHOLD AND WE ARE CURRENTLY INTERESTED IN HOSTING PEOPLE WHO WILL HELP US WITH THESE THINGS AS WELL, SO IF YOU ARE SCARED OF SANCTUARY WORKS AND STILL LIKE ANIMALS AND CHILDREN, YOU MIGHT HELP WITH THESE THINGS INSTEAD.

    Me and David are working from home, but we still need a lot of time for our money earning jobs, so we can provide for everyone and everything. That's why we really value highly independent people and fast learners!

  • Languages

    Languages spoken
    English: Fluent
    Slovak: Fluent
    German: Beginner
    French: Beginner
    Swedish: Beginner

    This host offers a language exchange
    This host has indicated that they are interested in sharing their own language or learning a new language.
    You can contact them directly for more information.

  • Accommodation

    Accommodation

    1. We offer you our guest room which has it's own toilet and separate entrance. The guestroom doesn't have a shower, but you can use the shower in our bathroom anytime.

    2. Tiny summer guest house - preferably only usable during the warmer months as it isn't insulated enough for staying warm enough during the coldest winter nights, although there is a wood owen. There's also a shower and a sink with a hot water as well. Toilet isn't built yet, we are thinking about adding a composting toilet inside or dry toilet outside next to the guest house.

  • What else ...

    What else ...

    ■To be willing to stay on a VEGAN DIET IS A MUST. Please, out of respect for our rescued animals and our work, don't bring any animal products here. (Yep, it happened before.)
    ■You can borrow bicycles anytime
    ■ We recommend visiting historical town of Banská Štiavnica which is only 45 minutes driving from our place, we will help you plan a trip there if you'd like. It's considered to be the most beautiful town in Slovakia.
    ■You can borrow the car when we don't need it.

  • A little more information

    A little more information

    • Internet access

    • Limited internet access

      Limited internet access

    • We have pets

    • We are smokers

    • Can host families

  • Can host digital nomads

    Can host digital nomads

    If you can work from home, good for you! We are working from home or our favourite garden office too! You'll have your own wifi at your room.

  • Space for parking camper vans

    Space for parking camper vans

    You can be parking in front of our house, there's also a huge parking lot which belongs to the town hall and it's possible to use it if you are large. One family that came on a truck with additional trailer which made together 15m long house on wheels parked there for 3 weeks once. If you have smaller van you can decide where to stay, you can also park at the top of our garden and enjoy privacy and very dark nights.

  • Can possibly accept pets

    Can possibly accept pets

    If you have a dog it has to be trainable not to chase and hunt our animals. We managed to train our dogs ourselves and we can provide a dog training guidance and advice. Cats are more problematic as we don't have any and our dogs only know the wild ones or neighbour's cats that come to provoke them.

  • How many Workawayers can stay?

    How many Workawayers can stay?

    More than two

  • ...

    Hours expected

    Maximum 5 hours a day, 5 days a week

Host ref number: 883315989667

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