Madrone Hill Ranch offers opportunities to horse enthusiasts of
all ages. If someone is up against financial barriers,
they have the option to help out at the ranch in
exchange for riding lessons and, once they are
established, various privileges. We have a variety of
people taking advantage of this program, including
several youth. Horses offer many important life lessons
as well as being incredibly therapeutic. They help
children (and adults) feel a sense of purpose;
empowerment; discipline and responsibility; and teach
them patience and understanding, including the all
important lesson of considering others (ie. what drives
different behaviors and how might that particular person
or animal be feeling?) Being involved with horses gets
people outside and active as well.
Of course we
are also a business, as we do need to support our ranch
in order to be able to provide these opportunities. We
offer riding lessons as well as horse training. This
year we are putting on our annual 6-day Youth Dressage
Camp, offered to our young students.
These students are focused, responsible,
disciplined youngsters who have learned to handle and
ride horses with tact, kindness and subtlety. This type
of horsemanship, known as "Dressage", is the equivalent
to a serious musician taking piano lessons, or a serious
dancer taking ballet as the best foundation in their
subject of interest. We are keeping the cost extremely
low (about one third of the cost of other similar horse
camps in this area). In order to pull this off we are
asking for donations/sponsorships. $300/each includes
all meals, use of horses if needed (some have their own
horses), daily educational lectures and activities,
riding lessons, and a show (with awards) on the last day
of the camp. Lectures range from veterinarian care,
horse behavior, hands-on demonstrations regarding
bio-mechanics of horse and rider, to name a few.
Your donation/sponsorship towards our camp would be
greatly appreciated by us as well as our very deserving
students, as they look forward to it all year. We can
also use food donations as well as things that could be
used as awards for the end of the week show, or used as
gifts for the campers. For donations over $50 Madrone
Hill Ranch will provide your company information on our
website. If you sponsored our camp last year , your
information is still on our website, and we will leave
it there. We will be updating that part of our website
to reflect current sponsors. To make a donation towards
the camp, you can do so in person or by mail. To arrange
an ad on the website, you may also do so in person, or
contact me - Sonja Biada, at (541) 840-5914 or
Email.
Thank you for your
consideration in helping these young riders participate
in this wonderful opportunity.
Sonja Biada
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