Mo & Angela are willing to share their horse expedition with others who do not have much money to take on their tours. The volunteering positions for available for a fixed term of 1 month, which can be extended on mutual agreement. They are able to take on board up to 2 Volunteers in a given time.
Who can volunteer?
- Travelers
- Nomads
- Students
- Couples
- Retired
- Families
- Children above 3 must be accompanied by at least one adult
How old should you be?
- Unaccompanied individuals must be over 18.
- Individuals aged 14 to 18 can volunteer with their parent or career authorized by the parents.
- Children and teens aged 3 to 13 cannot Volunteer but may accompany on volunteerโs care.
What is provided by the company?
Accommodation is provided in a 3 men tent [MSR Elixir 3] which is shared by other Volunteers. Volunteers can bring their own tent if they prefer privacy and is small. We advise bringing Stormproof / 4 season tent if you decide to bring one. A sleeping bag must be brought by each volunteer.
Food – After a year of having volunteers, trial and error of several methods; the most practical way is the Volunteers pay a fixed fee of $10 per day for the 3 meals, refreshments, tea/ coffee/ mate. This can be paid by cash weekly or can be deducted from your Deposit.
Local transport:
Our support vehicle will pick you up from the nearest town when you first arrive, and for shopping, going to the bar and sightseeing. On day-off volunteers will be taken to the nearest sigh seeing places and picked up on a later agreed time, this option is dependant on the workload and the availability of our support vehicle.
Training:
All volunteers will be trained on a regular basis on various aspects such as Western-style and Gaucho style Horse Riding, Advanced First- Aid, Wilderness First Response, Search and Rescue, Wilderness Survival, Fire making, Shelter building, Foraging, Hunting and Fishing. Please note that hunting and fishing are exercised only where lawfully permitted. Hunting with TiE is not a pleasure related activity but a source for food. No hunting will be done just to train individuals, but when meat is required the volunteers will be participating.
Discount for friends and family:
up to 50% off the full price is offered to friends and family of the Volunteers.
Terms and Conditions apply:
The percentage of the discount varies for each volunteer. The discount cannot be redeemed before the Volunteering period (I.E.) Friends and family of the volunteers can participate in the expedition only during or after their term of Volunteering with TiE.
Health and Safety:
TiE takes the health and safety of its crew, staff, interns and volunteers as high priority. We employ on-site paramedic and Doctor on call along with our support Vehicle to ensure safety. All Volunteers must notify their medical conditions directly to Expedition Leader or Co-leader. Failure to do so will revoke your term with us. Please note we do not provide any safety equipment such as Helmet, riding vest, boots or any other owing to individual sizes of each item and their logistics. Volunteers can bring their own if they require it.
Working hours
On average daily 5 hours or 25 hours per week of work is expected from the volunteers and no more than 35 hours in any given 7 day period.
If the company was short on staff owing to any reason including illness, the company may request the Volunteer to work more hours, for which they will be paid on an agreed amount per hour. The Volunteer can decline such requests without affecting their Volunteering terms. Please note that Riding horses, walking alongside horses at times, taking care of horses is not considered as work โ this is classified as the benefit.
Work includes
- cooking,
- cleaning,
- packing or unpacking,
- child minding.
Payment
There will be no financial contribution paid to the Volunteers unless otherwise agreed for over-time work. All tips received on the tour are not shared between other Volunteers nor with the company. If the client asked to share the tip, the Volunteer must give the amount to the expedition leader to mediate the sharing process either with the whole team or to specific individuals.
Deposit
Owing to several volunteerโs carelessnesses who have damaged our expensive equipment, such as saddles or pack saddlebags, stole our belongings (laptop) โ we have decided to take a deposit of US$ 500 via PayPal, UK or Polish Bank accounts or cash deposit (so as to avoid International Transaction fees), which will be returned at the end of your stay.
Volunteers may elect to deduct the food payments from the deposit at the end of their term. Deposit can be withheld if the volunteer does not commit to their term and leave early (exception to unexpected situations and provide reasonable notice).
How you are expected to contribute: We have 4 different types of days normally and each of which are described below. There may be some odd exceptions where the unexpected type of work may be needed including but not limited to extreme weather, natural disaster, search & rescue, etc.
NORMAL WORKING DAY
We start packing at 8.30 am before which you are required to wake up have your tea/coffee, your breakfast, take down your tent and pack it. At 8.30, you are required to wash plates and cutleries of breakfast, Brush and pick hooves of all 3 horses then saddle them up. One Volunteer will stay with the support vehicle and help packing the equipment into the Van whilst the other will prepare for the dayโs ride. This morning shift will be from 8.30 to 9.30 at which we leave the camp.
The Benefit of Volunteering with us:
During the day, you will first walk alongside horses for 15 to 30 minutes, then re-tighten the saddle before getting on. Our current schedule for riding is 2 hours max on horseback and the rest we walk alongside the horses. Then sometime in the afternoon, we stop for the lunch break usually 1.5 hours to 2.5 hours depending on how good the grass is if the day is hot or rainy. The lunch break is not set to a specific time but how tired the horses and the team are. After the lunch break, we repeat the same as in the morning. Walking alongside the horses, riding them are not considered as part of the Voluntary work.
We usually camp around 1830 where you will work for 30 minutes to unsaddle the horses, set up the tent, and arrange all the equipment in the correct place. After this half-hour set-up, you will have 30 minutes break to set-up your own tent and relax. But, you will have to be back for another hour for the last bit of the job. Cooking dinner, preparing hot water, and cold water, washing up after the dinner.
Day -Off / Resting day:
When the horses are having day-off the Volunteers might have to tend them, this includes a variety of horse care activities, including, daily 1-hour training, grooming and cleaning hooves. Feeding and watching over them when they are grazing. Usually, we take 2 days off and split each day between the core team and the volunteers. This enables us to do shopping, logistics, shower, laundry, sightseeing, getting involved with locals and relaxing.
ODD day:
After a year of travelling on horseback, we decided to add this section โ A day where nothing goes as planned. Please bear in mind that this is an expedition and some days everything goes wrong and you will be requested to help in a variety of ways which the team finds reasonable, which requires flexibility and understanding from your side.
Music festival:
TiE organizes music festivals with traveling bands every 3 months during our 10 leg break. You will be required to do various tasks to run the festival. Security team: Taking care of horses and our equipment. Food and beverage team โ Prepare and serve foods and drinks. Music team: if you are skilled in any instruments or if you are a singer, you can set up and entertain our guests.
Visa / Air transport / other aids:
Volunteers must arrange their own flights and transport to the nearest town where the base camp is.
They must also arrange for their own Visa or other legal permits required by the law of the country they are volunteering in. TiE does not offer any form of financial aid to enable individuals to volunteer with us. TiE will not reimburse any trainings undertook by the volunteers so as to enable them to volunteer with us.
Insurance
We strongly advise that each Volunteer get appropriate insurance for your experience with us as we do not offer them. Our Medical team is for accurate preliminary analysis and immediate transport to the nearest hospital.
CONTACT DETAILS
We are receiving a lot of applications to volunteer with us, thus we give priority to individuals depending on their skills set. The desirable skilled volunteers are as follows: Horse Riding instructors, Horse riders, Cinematographers, Photographers, Medical / Nursing/ Paramedical Students, experienced with horse care, off Road drivers, Mountain guides (certified / professionally experienced), Wilderness survivalists, etc.
If you want to join as a volunteer you need to read this page carefully:
http://toursinexpeditions.com/volunteering/
Other useful links:
www.facebook.com/toursinexpeditions
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