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Job Description
Our work campers are RVers who commit to spend several months or more at Desert Haven Animal Refuge, sharing in the daily care of our animal residents and helping maintain and upgrade the facility. Work campers also work with the volunteer crew at Paws & Claws Thrift Shop, the major source of funding for Desert Haven. Their time (an average of 20 hours/week per single or 30 hours/week per couple), talents and new ideas are exchanged for a spacious RV site and utility allowance.
At Desert Haven, service oriented work camping singles and couples are welcome year-round to help care for the domestic animals who live here until adoption or to the end of their natural life. While there is always a need for routine maintenance at the no-kill facility, large building projects are usually left for the Fall, Winter and Spring, when the crew is the largest. Winter visitors in the surrounding communities team up with the volunteers and work camping crew every Tuesday at the Refuge, to help with projects as well as with the animals.
The area, overlooking the nearby Rio Grande corridor with the Caballo Mountains in the background, is beautiful year-round.
The park is small, well tended and peaceful and the people are wonderful.