Hope, Horses & Kids

🐇🐰our bunnies are in need of new cages. If anyone has any hutch or wire cage they’d love to donate, please send us a DM! 🏡

🐴🔥 Two nonprofits. One community. So many possibilities.

Our 3rd annual Hootenanny will be held at our Rancho Cielo Youth Campus location.
Together, we’ve been bringing hands-on enrichment to youth in our community through horse exposure, blacksmithing, leadership development, social-emotional learning, Horse Powered Reading and connection 🔗

This past year, the teens of RC have been learning to blacksmith in our forge, and raise their FFA animals at our barn and we are proud and grateful to provide this space for them to be able to reconnect with nature and thrive with hands-on creativity.
The leadership skills they develop at our barn perfectly coincide with the work they do at the school, and now, we’re bringing this partnership to the table — quite literally! ❤️

Please join us for our September 12th Dinner Fundraiser, benefiting Hope, Horses & Kids and supporting the Rancho Cielo culinary team. The evening will feature a delicious dinner prepared and served by DCA, giving their students the opportunity to showcase their skills while helping support two nonprofits working together to enrich the lives of young people in our community.

It’s a night where education, opportunity, community, and connection all come together. Buy your tickets here ⬇️

www.hopehorseskids.org

We had an absolutely incredible time at the Monterey Bay Parent Magazine back to school expo at the Del Monte shopping mall in Monterey on Saturday. We met new friends, shared our love of horses, demonstrated some of our cool activities and loved on Puzzle and Georgina. They were H&M staff ambassadors for the day, and almost stole the quinciñera show!
Thank you for having us and we hope to be back again next year 🫶🏻

Our back to school booster Horse Powered Reading®️and Horse Powered Math®️ camp was a wonderful way to kick start these students brains into gear, all while making new friends and having a lot of fun. Activities included the road to reading, where we discussed challenges some young reader have, then we built ‘ranches’ for our Pony Express alphabetizing game. Next was some quiet storytime with Bacon and Woolly (Ellie the pot belly and Dutch stood in as the main characters in the story 😂). A little math racing game brought the energy back up later on followed by a brilliant activity where kids name challenges that they have while getting ready for school in the mornings - getting out of bed was mentioned more than once!! 🫪
We had such a great day and will be bringing more HPR®️specific camps to the barn!
Horse Powered Reading