22/10/2025
All About Kids and Animals ✨
Both Malaika and Peta work with beautiful animals to help them live a better life. These two wonderful girls will graduate from school at the end of this year. So, what do they learn from these volunteer experiences?
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Malaika works alongside a team of volunteers, sharing tasks, following instructions, and working both collaboratively and independently. She has daily goals, and today’s goal was to identify tasks independently.
How did she go? Malaika noticed that the cat window frames had a lot of dust and started cleaning them by herself. This was greatly appreciated by the staff, as children visiting the shelter often touch and hold onto these window frames to look inside. Well done, Malaika! 👏
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Peta volunteers with the beautiful rescue animals, helping to prepare their feeds, fill water troughs, clean pens, and walk them to fresh grass.
How did she go this week? Peta’s goals are to improve her coordination, memory, and speed. Impressively, she remembered the feed mixture for the animals, and although she’s still working on her speed, she walked up and down the hills with both goats and sheep twice, guiding them perfectly.
Peta has a heart of gold. Even though most of her set goals focus on physical skills, you never have to ask her if she wants to pat an animal. She brushes and pats both Lucky and Fallon every time she takes a break.
When they enter the workforce, they will not only be skilled but also kind and compassionate ❤️.
