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Travel Documentary and Environmental Documentation Assistant

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The experience

We need people who are very good with either, Social media content making, videography/social media video making, photography and graphic making and content writing skills to join our field work and field trips happens several times a month.

You will be joining our field work to go to field to cover human elephant conflict, elephant leopard conflict and deforestation and or other environmental degradation issues or community projects.

What you offer

10 hours of help per week

Content Writer: Write, edit and publish inspiring content.

Photography: Take, edit and provide amazing photos.

Video Making: Create, edit and publish digital videos.

Social Media: Maintain and update social media channels.

Additional fee required

Amount: US$ 7 Per day

Fee pays for: Benefits for travelers, Materials for volunteer activities, and Donation to project

Description: Our place is very remote. So we get a lady from the village to come and cook. Much of this goes for dry rations, cooking items and her wages so you get 3 meals a day and "Ceylon tea" many times :)

What you get

3 days off per week

Shared Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.

Team Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other people.

Tent: You will sleep in a tent at a camping site.

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.

Discounts on Tours: Get discounts for tours and excursions around town.

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

Free Hiking Tours: We’ll take you on excursions and hikes around town. For free!

Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.

Certificate: Get a certificate of completion after you finish your experience.

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

Requirements

Between 18 and 50 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

We are a non-profit environmental organization with a mission to protect the last remaining rainforests and threatened ecosystems in Sri Lanka including Sinharaja and Knuckles which are two UNESCO world heritage sites through conservation projects and environmental activism primarily driven through volunteer support. Our project also engage in permanent purchase of rainforests and reforestation/restoration projects in degraded forest landscapes in order to support SDG, Bonn Challenge and achieving Sri Lanka's forest cover targets. We need hundreds of volunteers to plant trees, To remove invasives, to work with local communities and youth, while helping us improve our conservation efforts of our forests that we protect or restore in different climatic zones in Sri Lanka.

In this specific position, you will help us with our field work by going to the field and being with us and covering our work to be communicated through all available communication tools and channels. This position will be rewarding as you will get to explore the country and understand deeper conservation issues and culture of Sri Lanka which most people travel won't have access to.

Activities & Shift

It depends on the field trips from sometimes a few hours a day to sometimes being in the field for days but of course with enough sleep and leisure time while away in different locations for work. Since you will only be staying for a week, we would not set off days for this post.

Rules

Simple. You will have the opportunity go to places and stay a day or two or more. So you will be hopefully moving a lot.

In some cases, you will be given certain tasks such as to produce 10 clips for a week. or to write 10 content articles or handle our social media feeds etc. There may be some small but achievable targets.

Sometimes, in certain field work, you will require to sleep in camping tents, tree houses and even farmers huts. Although in some cases you might stay at hotels with a little bit of luxury.

When you are our in the field you might have to chip in for food. Don't worry its not gonna cost you anything more than a few dollars for a meal.

You have to be very very flexible, open, honest and understanding. Field work can be very exhausting and at the same time fun filled work. But if you are someone who loves to explore rural Sri Lanka and understands conservation space in Sri Lanka, there's nothing better.