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Volunteer

Team Sanctuary

Volunteers are needed!

Professional Services: Your experience and comprehensive understanding of your professional career or training, 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. 

Active Board Members: The board meets once a month to review the projects and needs of the foundation.

Volunteering Opportunities
Volunteers are truly the cornerstone to getting thing done. If you desire to be part of our community, understand the commitment, willing to be dedicated and 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 perspective volunteer

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

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 a sacred animal, 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

Everyday Rain or Shine

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

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

Summer Schedule
5:30am to 8:30am (May – Sept)

The summer schedule is the most critical time for the need of volunteers