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Share our family life and join our herd of horses in Prlekija, Slovenia

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  2025 

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  • Description

    Description

    EDIT: I am currently ONLY looking for someone who would primarily help with my baby (5 months old! ❤️) and around the house. For that reason, I'm also looking for a minimum stay of 1-2 months. You will still get plenty of chances to work with horses and/or ride - the animals are part of our family!

    EDIT 2: if you write to me, I 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 me; authenticity is more important than perfect wording!

    Hello lovelies! I'm Sara and I own a small farm in a very rural setting in eastern Slovenia. It's partially my home, partially my organisation/work, and most importantly - a community that we co-create together with a bunch of coworkers, volunteers and friends. 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.

  • Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

    Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre

    S’occuper des animaux
    Baby-sitting et jeux créatifs
    Cuisine/repas pour la famille
    Aide à la maison
  • Centres d’intérêt

    Centres d’intérêt

    Activités en plein air
    Nature
    Animaux
  • Objectifs de développement durable de l’ONU que cet hôte essaie d'atteindre

    Objectifs de développement durable de l’ONU que cet hôte essaie d'atteindre

    Objectifs de l’ONU
    Pas de pauvreté
    Faim «zéro»
    Bonne santé et bien-être
    Éducation de qualité
    Égalité entre les sexes
    Eau propre et assainissement
    Énergie propre et d'un coût abordable
    Travail décent et croissance économique
    Industrie, innovation et infrastructure
    Inégalités réduites
    Villes et communautés durables
    Consommation et production responsables
    Mesures relatives à la lutte contre les changements climatiques
    Vie aquatique
    Vie terrestre
    Paix, justice et institutions efficaces
    Partenariats pour la réalisation des objectifs
  • Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

    Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre

    In exchange, you get your own room, food, access to a bike and 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.

  • Projets impliquant des enfants

    Projets impliquant des enfants

    Ce projet peut impliquer des enfants. Pour en savoir plus, consultez nos directives et conseils ici.

  • Aide

    Aide

    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 other tasks could include taking care of the horses (poop-picking, weekly training if you have experience with horses) and helping out with various 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 four 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 organised an 'English tea party' with our UK volunteers for the local community and it was a blast.

  • Langues

    Langues parlées
    Anglais: Courant
    Slovenian: Courant
    Français: Débutant
    Hollandais: Débutant

    Cet hôte propose un échange linguistique
    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!

  • Hébergement

    Hébergement

    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).

  • Autres infos...

    Autres infos...

    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.

  • Informations complémentaires

    Informations complémentaires

    • Accès Internet

    • Accès Internet limité

      Accès Internet limité

    • Nous avons des animaux

    • Nous sommes fumeurs

    • Familles bienvenues

  • Possibilité d’accueillir les digital nomads

    Possibilité d’accueillir les digital nomads

    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.

  • Espace pour garer des vans

    Espace pour garer des vans

    Cet hôte a de la place pour les vans.

  • Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

    Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?

    Un

N° de référence hôte : 131829686673

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L'image représente une femme chevauchant un cheval brun dans une zone boisée, avec deux personnes marchant à ses côtés, entourées d'arbres et d'un chemin de terre.
L'image représente une femme et trois enfants promenant un cheval brun sur une route pavée, entourée d'arbres et d'un ciel bleu avec des nuages blancs.
L'image représente un groupe de personnes réunies en cercle sur l'herbe à l'extérieur d'une maison, avec une table au centre et un ciel bleu au-dessus.

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