How can you get involved?
Our volunteers are asked to get involved in all aspects of the park – research, marketing, functions, maintenance, training, guiding, education, etc.
The kinds of things we ask our volunteers to help out with include the following:
- Preparing food for the elephants
- Preparing milk bottles and feeding our two baby elephants. Elephants are weaned at about two and a half years so the feeding of baby elephants would depend on when volunteers are here and if we had milk-fed babies at the park at that time. However, one of our primary objectives is offering care to orphaned calves and we never know when new babies are going to arrive on our doorstep!
- Helping the elephant guides and handlers in the field during daily tours
- Assisting with veterinary care, when necessary
- Environmental education
- General maintenance - mucking out of elephant pens, general cleaning, painting, etc.
- Marketing and advertising, helping with functions
- Dung project - elephant dung makes excellent compost - dung is collected, packaged and sold as compost. The money raised is donated to a nearby primary school.
- Vegetable garden project – we have a vegetable garden, made using recycled tyres as garden beds. The objective of the garden is two-fold – to help teach disadvantaged school children about building their own vegetable gardens; and assessing the effectiveness of elephant dung as a fertiliser, depending on its age.
- One of a volunteer’s main activities will be Assisting with Elephant Research
If you would like to volunteer please contact us and we will send you more information: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
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