Check with your internship coordinator BEFORE accepting to determine how you might do this internship for credit. Summary: Farm Sanctuary’s Social Justice & Our Food System Community Learning Program is designed to support critical thinking about the ideas and history underlying the dysfunction of our modern food system and society. The intention is to inspire action to counteract that harm and to create a more just and compassionate food system and world. It focuses on veganism, social injustice, and the …

Summary: The Education Department at Farm Sanctuary works to educate youth and adults about the lives of farmed animals and interrelated issues of oppression in our food system and to inspire and support transitional steps toward vegan living. This is accomplished through community learning programs and education at our sanctuaries, online, and in the classroom. This internship provides a unique opportunity to gain skills and experience in the animal protection field and to contribute to a dynamic team working toward …

Shelter caregivers work closely with shelter management to ensure quality animal care, proper handling, proper disease diagnosis, and maintenance of all animal feeds and watering schedules. Responsibilities: Animal feeding/watering and maintaining animal feeds schedule Daily animal health care and treatments Weekly animal health checks/individual checks of each species Animal health care projects as assigned, including feed ordering, medications and medical supply ordering, database, and animal charting Shelter cleaning projects; maintaining hospital/treatment areas Training and supervising animal caregiver assistants, shelter interns, …

Caregiver Assistants are part of a team of shelter workers who are assigned one of four animal care areas each day: barn cleaning, animal feeding and watering, shelter projects, or animal health care assistance. Shelter workers must be able to complete any of the four areas assigned and complete all tasks assigned within these animal care areas. Responsibilities: Animal feeding and maintaining animal-feeding schedules Animal watering and maintaining animal-watering schedules Barn cleaning Shelter cleaning projects as assigned Assisting with animal …