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The experience

This is an exciting opportunity for any current or recently graduated university students who want more experience or are interested in elephants.

If you want to have a unique experience hiking in the forest to find the elephants and observing and recording their natural behaviours in their home environment, then is the right place for you. Come and join us for the experience of a lifetime.

What you offer

30 hours of help per week

Animal Care: Help look after and take care of animals.

Social Work: Help with volunteer work in local projects and communities.

Additional fee required

Amount: US$ 450 Per week

Fee pays for: Donation to project

Description: Fee to cover all expenses: $450-2,100USD (depending on length of stay). Expenses include: All food and accommodation on site as well as your in-country transport from/to project on arrival and departure

What you get

2 days off per week

Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.

Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.

Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.

Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.

Pick Up: We will pick you up when you arrive, and take you to our property.

Basic Internet Access: Basic speed internet for you to work remotely

Requirements

Intermediate English

Over 18 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

If you want to have a unique experience hiking in the forest to find the elephants everyday, observing and recording their natural behaviours in their home environment, then Kindred Spirit Elephant Sanctuary is the right place for you. Come and join us for the experience of a lifetime. Volunteers must be physically fit to hike everyday up and down the mountains to get to the elephants. In our sanctuary, you can see exactly where your donations are going and how they are benefiting our sanctuary, our elephants and our community.

Our sanctuary has rescued 7 elephants from the tourism industry and we have now brought them home to live out their lives in the forest, in semi-wild conditions. We need volunteers to help us keep these elephants happy and healthy in their natural habitat.

Activities & Shift

A research volunteer's tasks vary from day-to-day. Our days begin with early morning hikes through the forest to find the elephants, staying with them while observing and collecting in their natural behaviour. Some days lunch is eaten with the elephants in the forest, a very unique experience! Hikes will usually return to the village around early afternoon but the day doesn’t end there.

The afternoons will consist of data entry and completing project work with some evenings being spent giving talks and presentations on elephant research or conservation to create awareness and educate our guests.