Volunteer, Gareth

Gareth, from England, spent a month at LIFE this summer 2025. He fabulously gave us his carpentry skills and most admirably of all passed on needed carpentry skills to some of our local Roma workforce.  

During his stay Gareth put up with exhausting heat, pesky flies and slept surrounded by barking dogs in our small volunteers caravan or when the heat became insufferable camped uncomfortably in our tack tunnel at the Haven . But stalwart trooper that he is, everyday he was up early at work replacing bad gates with good ones and making  fencing more secure and then. Gareth’s masterpiece was designing and building a super luxury dog house for 5 dogs funded by an amazing friend of our Haven dogs. Throughout all of his time he taught as well, his constant willing and increasingly able  helper being dear old deaf Dyado who more and more took pride in what he found he could do with a little expert guidance.

As Gareth himself said : Give a man a fish....'