Results
Community Work
In 2007, we offered a month long charity program to benefit children of need on the island. Foundation AM-EN, a foundation that facilitates therapy on horseback, provided a trained riding therapist to support our community project. Sixty children from the INNFA were screened and divided up into six groups according to their needs. The range of conditions was from those lacking parental attention to those with more serious conditions such as Downs Syndrome. The therapist worked with both the children and their parents, when possible. Two foreign volunteers worked alongside the Foundation AM-EN therapist to provide guidance for the daily groups of ten children who spent half a day on the hacienda, riding horses, viewing the livestock, and picking fruit.
The hacienda is now available for use by volunteers who desire to experience the life of the highlands. They are able to live on the hacienda while participating in all the daily activities. These include care of the cattle and horses, planting trees and plants, general maintenance of the property, and invasive wild blackberry control.
