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You Can Make a Difference

We believe the best way for our initiatives to be successful is for the community to actively get involved. You can make a difference by contributing to the great work we do at Challenge New Mexico. Get in touch with any questions about how you can support our horses and clients.

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Scroll down to see our current initiatives.

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Sponsor a horse

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How much does it cost to take care of our horses - the backbone of our program?

 

For feed alone, we need about $45 per day to keep our horses healthy. That boils down to about $5 a day for each horse. If you add in hoof care and vet costs, we estimate that it costs $8 a day to maintain each horse. It doesn't sound like a lot until you add it all up at the end of the year - it takes about $3,000 to care for one horse for a year.

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What does that mean for you?

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It means you can play an important role in keeping our program going by donating to our Horse Care Fund!

Just click on the present        to send us a gift!

 

$15 - Buys a bale of hay

$35 - Feeds a horse for one week

$50 - Provides all care for a horse for one week

$250 - Feeds one horse (and includes hoof care) for 6 weeks (the length of our riding sessions)

$350 - Feeds the Challenge New Mexico herd for one week

$1,500 - Fills our hay barn with 100 bales

$1,800 - Feeds one horse for a year

$2,600-$3,000 - Provides all care for one horse for a year (Please contact us if interested!)

$30,000 - Keeps our herd fed, vetted, and shod for a year (Please contact us if interested!)

Donate a helmet

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Are you looking for a concrete way to make a difference for one of our riders?

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For $30, you can purchase a helmet for one of our riders!

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Normally, we allow riders to borrow a helmet for their lessons. We do our best to make riding accessible to everyone - even to those that may not be able to afford their own equipment. Our goal is to reach across limits and allow anyone to experience horses safely.

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So, what changed? In short, COVID-19.

 

Using disinfectants can damage and break down riding helmets. Obviously, this isn't a piece of equipment that we want to compromise in any way, but we do need to ensure that our protective equipment is still keeping our riders safe from possible COVID-19 exposure. The easiest way to cover all the safety bases is to ask our riders to provide their own helmet.

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Here's where YOU come in! For $30, you can purchase a helmet for one of our clients!

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Challenge New Mexico will handle sizing, ordering, and all the details to make sure each client has their own helmet to keep them safe - in more ways than one!

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Give our riders a gift by clicking the present!

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