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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 d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre
Projets artistiques
Pratique d’une langue
Aide avec des éco-projets
Jardinage
Bricolage et construction
S’occuper des animaux
Aide dans une ferme
Baby-sitting et jeux créatifs
Cuisine/repas pour la famille
Aide à la maison
Entretien général
Objectifs de développement durable de l’ONU que cet hôte essaie d'atteindre
Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre
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
Projets impliquant des enfants
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Aide
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!
Langues
Langues parlées
Anglais: Courant
Slovak: Courant
Allemand: Débutant
Français: Débutant
Swedish: DébutantCet hôte propose un échange linguistique
Cet hôte a indiqué qu’il souhaitait faire partager sa propre langue ou en apprendre une nouvelle.
Contactez-le pour en savoir plus.
Hébergement
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.
Autres infos...
■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.
Informations complémentaires
Accès Internet
Accès Internet limité
Nous avons des animaux
Nous sommes fumeurs
Familles bienvenues
Possibilité d’accueillir les 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.
Espace pour garer des 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.
Possibilité d'accueillir les animaux
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.
Combien de volontaires pouvez-vous accueillir ?
Plus de 2
Nombre d'heures attendues
Maximum 5 hours a day, 5 days a week
Feedback (24)
It was my first Workaway experience and I really enjoyed it. There is a lot of work to be done, which was a bit hard for me in the beginning when I was the only volunteer for a few days but they… read more
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Échange culturel:
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It was my first Workaway experience and I really enjoyed it. There is a lot of work to be done, which was a bit hard for me in the beginning when I was the only volunteer for a few days but they… read more
The work was tiring but reasonable. Involved waking up at… read more
We had a choice of 2 rooms both great, we loved lighting the woodburner every night. They also let us use their bikes :) Learning… read more
Thank you so… read more
Its a bit difficult to put this experience in words, because it was a very transforming experience for me (Tomas). I was supposed to stay 3 weeks and at the end I stayed one month.
Rita, David and Aurora, how can i thank you. Thank you… read more
We… read more
During our stay, we had some unforgettable moments, interesting conversations, and delicious meals. Ria makes delicious pizza and much more, and Dawid cooks delicious soups. Little Rori is just adorable. The days with the animals were wonderful. Other volunteers were very… read more
PS - don't get eaten by… read more
I really enjoyed my time with them!
Communication is important for me to feel sure, safe and welcome. Both Ria and David were always there and open to any… read more
Ria and David are extraordinary people, friendly and warm and always make you feel welcome as if you were at home. All their animals are amazing creatures who love to cuddle and spend time with you, the best therapy ever. It was my first experience with… read more
Eva was very helpful, independent, she could understand what is needed to be done even without us having to tell her… read more
We were greeted with open arms ... They have a lot of love and kindness to share all the time !!! We really feel good there !!!
They both cook incredibly well and they even revisited Slovak specialties for us in a Vegan… read more
They are a lovely couple who go above & beyond to make you feel comfortable & relaxed and they always have time for you!
They were fun, kind & taught us lots of interesting things about the Slovakian culture, cooked us amazing vegan dishes & desserts and most importantly, gave… read more
