Volunteers are needed!

Team Sanctuary

Professional Services: Your experience and comprehensive understanding of your professional career or skills, can help build the expanding organization.

Equine Caregivers: This involves caring for the sanctuary horses. Care includes grooming, stall cleaning and emotional support, helping to assure that the horses live in a clean and safe environment.

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Volunteering Opportunities

Volunteers are truly the cornerstone to getting things done. If you desire to be part of our community, understand the commitment, and are willing to be dedicated in service to others, we can promise you will be rewarded with personal growth, a feeling of accomplishment and a deep sense of satisfaction. Volunteering truly expands the heart of who you are in humanity.

Why Volunteer

Are you an animal lover?
Do you what to help animals?
Do you need to get a little relaxing exercise?
Are you interested in learning more about horses?
Do you need to add some perspective to your own life?

Becoming a volunteer

Complete the application form provided
Applicants must be 18 years or older
Applicants must be able to speak, read and write English
Applicants must make a 50 hour /six month commitment
Individual interviews are scheduled with each prospective volunteer

Training

Volunteers will be exposed to a variety of situations in the course of the daily duties. Training and experience become part of the everyday activities.
An academic program covering horse health, care, handling and grooming is available for volunteers.

Tahki Keepers Award

Extraordinary volunteers devoting 200 hours of service are awarded and named Tahki Keepers. The word Tahki is a Mongolian name meaning “spirit”. The horses of the Mongolian people are considered sacred animals, being the link between heaven and earth. So the extraordinary caregiver volunteers of the AGC foundation are called the Tahki keepers or Spirit keepers.

General Volunteering Schedule for Horse Care

Every Day Rain or Shine

Winter Schedule
7am to 10am (November – March)

Transition Months
6:30am to 9:30am (October and April)

Summer Schedule
6:00am to 9:00am (May – Sept)

"Volunteers are needed most during summer hours."