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Post by mangetout on Oct 23, 2022 13:18:47 GMT 1
Has anyone used these to help at their home. I'd like to hear of your experience if you have.
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Veem
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Post by Veem on Oct 23, 2022 15:47:25 GMT 1
I haven't actually used them but a close friend has. She has horses and is engaged in equine research, so she has always gone for someone familiar with horses and their care - often a vet student. In all the years she has been having workaways I think she has only had one or two with whom she wasn't impressed. She always makes sure that she achieves a balance between finding them useful things to do to help around the place with the horses, and taking them out and about a bit to places of interest. The last person was a lovely indefatigable Polish vet student who even wanted to do the cooking. Another person I know seems to want the work to be done but doesn't plan much in the way of interesting things to do, so I think she gets less from the arrangement.
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Post by lapourtaider on Oct 23, 2022 17:03:09 GMT 1
I think the way Veem's horsey friends use workaway is in the right spirit. All too often on Escape to the Chateau et al they seem to be used as cheap labour. Just my opinion.
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Post by pcpa on Oct 23, 2022 20:21:50 GMT 1
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Post by mangetout on Oct 24, 2022 12:18:40 GMT 1
Noted pcpa. Hadn't thought of that.
As for the couple you mention, I've always thought they smiled too much and wondered what was beneath it all.
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Post by cernunnos on Oct 24, 2022 12:43:36 GMT 1
A few years ago, the MSA took a couple of farmers, that were using WWOOFers on their farms, to court , to make them pay the social charges. Things may have been sorted out and there may be a way to declare exchange workers now.
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