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Once horses and donkeys are turned out, the stalls are cleaned out. We are looking for help to clean the stalls, no experience needed we will show you how its done!

We are looking for experiencedrinced horse handlers to help us with turn out and turn in. 

Help take care of the amazing rescued and endangered animals of Skanda -- horses, goats, miniature donkeys, pigs, chickens, and ducks -- by helping to feed them, clean their living spaces, and socialize with them. 

Join Skanda's team of amazing volunteers. This could be right for you if you love animals, love the outdoors, and want to make a difference. 

Families are welcome. High school students can earn community service hours. 

We will match you with activities that are a good fit for your physical ability, schedule, and interests. Contact us to arrange a 30-minute orientation on the farm: https://www.thehavenatskanda.org/volunteer

Feed Skanda's horses, goats, miniature donkeys, guineas and large pigs lunch between 11am-1pm. This is the perfect way to bond with the sweet, loving animals of Skanda and add joy and fulfillment to your life, knowing you are making an immediate difference. Feeding the animals requires training, and consistent availability on an ongoing basis (more or less, life happens, we are flexible of course).

Skanda is seeking help caring for its herd of 11 horses, mostly rescued. This would include, depending on skill level, turning the horses out in the morning and/or in at night, mucking stalls, grooming. 

Volunteers must have considerable equine experience for this activity. 

This is an ongoing need, and we do ask that volunteers for this activity are able to make a relatively consistent, ongoing commitment. 

Seeking able-bodied volunteers to muck the mini-donkey stalls on Tuesdays and/or Wednesdays. This entails bringing a wheelbarrow and pitchfork into the mini-donkey area and cleaning all the manure out of their stalls and flipping their sawdust bedding so it is fluffy, and adding more bedding when needed. 

This is a favorite activity for volunteers because the mini-donkeys are so friendly and loving, and volunteers also can groom them (brush them). 

This activity is physically engaging but very doable for most people, and a great activity for kids and families.

We are seeking reliable people with relatively consistent schedules who are available for about 90 minutes on Tuesdays and/or Wednesday on an ongoing basis. We provide training and support. 

The Haven at Skanda is seeking strong, reliable people who love animals to feed dinner to the over 150 rescued and endangered horses, goats, pigs, mini-donkeys, chickens, and ducks who live on Skanda. 

This activity takes 2-3 hours, and occurs between 4:30-7:30pm. 

Feeding requires lifting 40-50lbs bales of hay, carrying buckets of water, and lots of maneuvering in and out of animal living areas, barns, and stalls. 

Families and groups of friends have found feeding dinner to the animals to be a great bonding activity. 

While we realize volunteers won't fully know if feeding dinner is a good fit for them until they actually do it and see what it entails, we do ask that only serious applicants apply. We are looking for people who are physically strong and capable, and also who have a reliable, consistent schedule that will allow them to commit to feeding the animals once a week. 

You can apply for an orientation on the farm here: https://www.thehavenatskanda.org/volunteer

The Haven at Skanda's new Fund Development Committee is seeking members with fundraising and development experience, event planning experience, or a can-do attitude and a willingness to jump in and make things happen. 

If you want to support The Haven at Skanda but doing farm work is not your thing, this is a great way to help. 

Contact us for more information. 

We need people who can drop hay down from our hay mau and bring it up a short ramp into our hay stall and stack it there. The stall holds about 50 bales, and we'd like to keep it full. Volunteers can come do as little or as much as they can. Ideally a team of 2-4 people can get the hay stall filled in less than an hour. This would be a weekly activity.