Game Reserve / Wild Animal Veterinary Team Require Volunteers

  Kenya

Nairobi

Durations of Program: 5-8 weeks and 9-12 weeks
Typical Duration of Program: 5-8 weeks
Dates: All year

Description: The project is run from the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) headquarters in Nairobi. Volunteers participating in the program are therefore stationed in Nairobi but will be required to travel from one park to another. Meaning, this week one could a attend to a sick antelope in Amboseli then move hundreds of kilometers to help treat a sick lioness in Samburu, Masai Mara or Abedares National Park.

The placement is all about wildlife health. Though the animals have strength and power that has over the centuries captured human imagination, they also fall sick, experience great pain and often die.

A volunteer would therefore participate in the quest to find the paining animal and help it regain in health. The most active vet department of the KWS is the one in Nairobi. This program is however unpredictable because it is not possible to tell when and where a sick animal might be found in the vast parks.

When a volunteer is not attending a distant a assignment that is usually done in the company of a seasoned KWS veterinary doctors and rangers, he or she will be involved at the nearby Nairobi National Park, The Animal Orphanage or elegant Safari Walk.

This program is best when there is an on going translocation program as no fun exceeds trapping, loading and off-loading giant herbivores in different parks across the country.

This placement is highly competitive, thus those pursuing veterinary studies or practicing veterinary medicine are usually given first priority. Do not however hesitate to send us your CV as we might be able to get you on the next bus with a team headed for a real adventure somewhere, in the middle of the vast jungles.

Highlights: This program would best suit anyone who wishes to shake hands with the real wild animals and live to tell the story! The pictures show the kind of adventure that can be had. Often long and hard work but a once in a lifetime experience.

Qualifications: This placement is highly competitive, thus those pursuing veterinary studies or practicing veterinary medicine are usually given first priority. Do not however hesitate to send us your CV as we might be able to get you on the next bus with a team headed for a real adventure somewhere, in the middle of the vast jungles. This is for hard working, hands on, flexible people looking for unpredictable and educational volunteering project.

Cost in US$: Check website

Experience Required: no

Age Range: 19+

This Program is open to World Wide Participants. This Program is also open to Families, Couples and Individuals

Participants Travel to Kenya Independently

Application Process Involves:

• Resume

Inspire Kenya's Mission Statement: To send groups of people to Kenya to contribute to the people and culture in a productive and meaningful way.

Year Founded: 2006