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EDIT: We are currently ONLY looking for someone who would primarily help with our baby (3 months old! ❤️) and around the house. For that reason, we're also looking for a minimum stay of 1-2 months. You will still get plenty of chances to work with horses and/or ride in your free time - our animals are part of our family!
EDIT 2: if you write to us, we really appreciate if you take the time and use your own words instead of ChatGPT/other AI tools. This is an absolute no-no for us; authenticity is more important than perfect wording!
Hello lovelies! We are Sara (31 - oops - 33 now) and Luka (38) and we own a small farm in a very rural setting in eastern Slovenia. We've hosted our first volunteers last year and loved the experience. This year a baby has joined our family which means that now a lot of our life revolves around the little one!
We have a herd of 7 horses and an old farm that we've been renovating with the vision of turning it into a rural community/youth center. There's an old barn that we're turning into a tiny indoor riding arena & a common space where young people can hang out in their free time, a few guest rooms in the house & a lot of overgrown land that wants to become a garden.
Our family also consists of cats and two dogs, our NGO's employees and local volunteers, and there are always super-friendly locals coming for a visit and a cup of coffee - so it's a quiet space, but full of animals and a sense of community.Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje
Cuidado de animales
Cuidado de niños y juegos creativos
Cocinar para toda la familia
Ayuda doméstica
Intereses
Actividades al aire libreNaturalezaAnimalesObjetivos de sostenibilidad de las NU que intenta conseguir este anfitrión
Intercambio cultural y oportunidades de aprendizaje
In exchange, you get your own room, food, access to a car, the possibility to learn horsemanship skills - or just spend time with our wonderful herd - and the chance to be a part of a very rural, welcoming community surrounded by nature (and animals - our animals love to smother volunteers with love 😍). We'd love to eat some meals per week together.
Horsey experience is not necessary as our herd is quite low-maintenance, but we've learned from experience that we don't always have a lot of time to teach you the basics of riding and working with horses if that's your goal, so some self-initiative is needed. If you're comfortable around horses, you're welcome to go on rides in the forest on your own or with the local volunteers and to play/train with the horses on a daily basis. For pony nerds, I'm fascinated by approaches such as Centered Riding, Academic Art of Riding, building a paddock paradise, and our horses go barefoot and bitless.Proyectos con niños
En este proyecto podría haber niños. Para obtener más información, consulta nuestras directrices y consejos aquí.
Ayuda
Edit: your main tasks would be helping with the baby and the household - babysitting for an hour or so every day, helping prepare meals for us and other volunteers, walking the dogs, helping with keeping the house tidy.
Your main tasks would be taking care of the horses (poop-picking, weekly training if you have experience with horses) and helping out with various renovation & gardening tasks around the farm depending on your skills and wishes (preparing the garden for the winter, helping with fencing and chopping wood, etc).
We've seven horses (and two foals on the way) who live freely on about a hectare of land and the poop-picking is max. 1h/day, and the rest of the time is spent on various projects around the farm. It's physical work, but not overly hard.
We also appreciate you co-creating the living space together with us and sharing cooking and housekeeping duties. Since the baby's arrival, this has become more and more important; we want the living space to be tidy and clean. While not a must, babysitting occasionally (but not much - our baby is only three months old and requires a lot of mama!) would be appreciated.
If you have skills that would be interesting to the local young people and community, we'd be happy to organise events and workshops together as well! :) We've just organised an 'English tea party' with our UK volunteers for the local community and it was a blast.Idiomas
Idiomas hablados
Inglés: Fluido
Slovenian: Fluido
Francés: Principiante
Holandés: PrincipianteEste anfitrión ofrece intercambio de idiomas
The local kids & teens are always happy to practice their English with our volunteers and they'd be happy to teach you Slovenian in exchange!Alojamiento
We have three guest rooms and you'd have your own room. We've just renovated them with natural materials (wood, straw, clay) and they're lovely, and we share the common space together (kitchen, living room).
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We have a car just for volunteers and you're welcome to use it for trips in your free time - we're close to Hungary, Austria and Croatia, and we live in a beautiful wine region full of little charming places to see. Budapest is a cheap train ride away, Vienna, Zagreb and Ljubljana are easily accessible by car and there is a mountain range full of hiking opportunities an hour's drive away + lots of lakes to go swimming in the summer.
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Acceso a Internet
Acceso a Internet limitado
Tenemos animales
Somos fumadores
Puede alojar familias
Puede acoger a nómadas digitales
There's optic internet on the farm and volunteers have their own room, which offers enough privacy to work. The working hours are totally flexible and can be adjusted to your other responsibilities.
Espacio para aparcar autocaravanas
Este anfitrión puede proporcionar un sitio para autocaravanas.
¿Cuántos voluntarios puedes hospedar?
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