Project Objectives
1. Provide a safe, clean and positive riding experience for customers.
2. Evaluate and inspect horse facilities and beach rides to improve the experience for customers.
3. Provide basic horse care instruction.
4. Inventory and track each horse in the program.
5. Provide health maintenance materials including wormers, vaccines, vitamins, and possibly feed and health care products.
6. Monitor conditions of facilities and horse condition.
7. Provide instruction and training of trail leaders and caregivers as to the proper horse handling and safety guidelines for beach rides.
8. Locating proper horse environments and safe riding areas.
9. Setup funding for continuation and improvement of beach rides, horse health and handling.
10. Provide one-on-one assistance with horse provider to address their problems and concerns.
11. Serve as a liason between horse provider, customers, Bureau of Tourism, government, cruise lines, hotels, and resorts.
12. Coordinate and set up youth vocational apprentice program to teach them proper care and horse management.
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Philosophy of Project Carribean Horse
Man and horse bonded and worked side-by-side for centuries. If it were not for the horse, man may have never survived through the ages. Horse provided man transportation, a means to cultivate fields for food, recreation and many other activities. Horses' spirit was pure--he would work to death to serve man. The smart man quickly learned that if he didn't properly care for horse then horse would break down and not be able to work. Horse and man had to work together for both to prosper and survive. Horse and man need the same things to survive. Both need food, water, shelter, sleep and the company of each other.
It is this bond between horse and man working together in harmony that is the magic between them. Man is to this day still attracted to horse. There is nothing more awesome and beautiful then a happy horse and rider galloping across a big open sandy beach and blue ocean romping and playing together. It is this awesome moment that every person would love to experience. But the experiences needs to be right. It needs to be such a positive experience that the visitor will come back to experience it again and tell his friends to come as well.
For this experience to be positive, the horse, the riding environment and the guides need to be in happy harmony with the right qualities: healthy, well cared for horses and a considerate, knowledgeable guide. When all is right, everyone benefits--the horse, the rider, the horse provider, cruise ships and the tourism business all win and prosper.
It is the goal of Project Carribean Horse to help provide and promote this experience by providing proper education, horse care instruction and materials, training for guides and horse providers, enhancement and improvement of riding trails, and basic horse riding instruction for customers. PROJECT CARRIBEAN HORSE
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