Hello! My name is Amber and I am a disabled Army veteran. 

Before the Army, I got an associate’s degree in Equine Science and Management and was working towards a bachelor’s degree in western-style horse training. I joined the Army because of the promise of payment for the rest of my schooling. 

Unfortunately, while I was in the Army, my hip was injured and I could no longer ride horses. The thing I spent my whole life working towards was gone, just like that.

Now, ten years later, I’m going through a new treatment and the pain in my hip is the best it’s been in a long while. I’m now working on getting back onto a horse in hopes that I can ride again and get back on track to be a horse trainer. 

But I need help! 

The chronic pain in my hip has made my choices of a job limited and I’m not getting paid a lot. I can make bills, but I have nothing left over for the fun stuff that makes life worth living. My goal is to get back into the horse world, back in the saddle, and work towards my dream job again.

Donations will go towards a few intro lessons to make sure I can ride again, supplies needed to care for a horse, leasing a horse to ride and practice on, and finding a horse training barn I can apprentice at.