Date Posted: 2024-07-11 | Expires: 2033-07-11

Care for rescued Elephants in Sri Lanka

Program Description

Spend time working with elephants and their handlers in their day to day activities. You'll help the mahouts (elephant handlers) with their daily routines. This includes activities like feeding the elephants, cleaning and bathing the elephants and cleaning the elephant enclosures.

This can be a life-changing experience, as the Elephants are very family orientated and the young ones love fun.

The majority of your volunteering work will be assisting the mahouts with their day-to-day aspects of caring for and maintaining the comfort of the elephants. This will include:

Cleaning and bathing the elephants
Walking them through the forest to forage
Mucking out the elephant enclosures
Helping to collect the food from the forest for the elephants
Helping to feed them.
You will also learn about elephants and learn some of elephant commands the mahout’s use on a regular basis.
There may also be the opportunity to do other things, such as some maintenance and renovation work, etc., but that will be subject to the needs that arise during the time that you're there.

Program highlights

WHAT YOU'LL GAIN FROM DOING THIS PROJECT

- An exciting, never-to-be-forgotten overseas volunteering holiday into Asia and the fascinating culture of Sri Lanka.
- The enormous satisfaction of helping captive animals and seeing how your efforts are making a difference to them.
- New skills, more confidence, a greater understanding of different cultures, invaluable personal and professional development.
- An entry on your CV or résumé that will put you head and shoulders above most others in the job market.
- And best of all ... an unforgettable experience!

Visa Support

No

Language Skills Required:

English

Program Duration

1-2 Weeks, 2-4 Weeks, 3-6 Months

Age Requirement:

Email Program

Program Details

Types - Subjects

Agriculture, Animal Welfare, Conservation, Eco-Tourism, Marine Conservation, Tourism, Veterinary Science

Locations

Sri Lanka - Kandy, Kandy

Program Price

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Salary

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