Education
Here at El Refugio del Burrito, we firmly believe in education as the best prevention tool when fighting animal abandonment and mistreatment. According to this philosophy, a big part of our work is dedicated to promoting education for the respect and care of animals and nature in general. We encourage education for environmental protection from early ages.
You can find many different activities that have a focus on education, such as:
- School visits that include talks and grooming sessions.
- Visit schools ourselves to provide information and talks, saving travelling costs for the schools.
- Guided tours on request for groups where you can learn about donkeys and our work.
- On a different scope, qualified personnel from El Refugio del Burrito have taken part in conferences both in Spain and overseas.
- We provide vet universities or colleges with publications on donkey welfare.
- Advice on how to care for your donkeys is always available from our welfare and farm departments
To bring children closer to these lovely and forgotten animals, we offer visits to our sanctuary, in the village of Fuente de Piedra, Málaga. This contributes to raise animal and environmental awareness among students.
We currently organize, three types of school visits:
- Meet and learn (Simple visit. Minimum donation of 3€/child): Meeting the animals, history and evolution, guided observation of a donkey, introduction to basic care and feeding.
- Scratching ears (Visit and workshops. Minimum donation of 5€/child): Meeting the animals, history and evolution, guided observation of a donkey, introduction to basic care and feeding + Workshops of (1) interaction with donkeys, (2) feeding and (3) drawing – in small groups + Educational workshop, to choose between recycling or organic gardening.
- A day among donkeys (Visit, workshop, picnic and gymkhana. Minimum donation of 10€/child):Meeting the animals, history and evolution, guided observation of a donkey, introduction to basic care and feeding + Workshops of (1) interaction with donkeys, (2) feeding and (3) drawing – in small groups + Educational workshop, to choose between recycling or organic gardening + Educational picnic (inspired in our animals diet) + Gymkhana in the farm, by teams.
If you are interested in visiting us with your school, or you would like us to visit you, please contact us.
