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A conservation project in Namibia
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Come and enjoy the natural savannah paradise with riverine vegetation, lush grass plains and magnificent mountain views and experience your very own African dream.
 
     
  VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES  
     
  This project provides you with a rare and exciting opportunity to work closely with lots of animals, including a number of African wildlife. You will care for them on a daily basis as well as helping to develop and maintain the sanctuary.

Feeding and caring for the animals
You will be responsible for preparing the food and feeding the animals. This includes cutting raw meat for our large carnivores (not for the squeamish!) and throwing meat to the lions, leopards, semi-tame and wild cheetahs, African wild dogs and hand feeding the meerkats. You may also get the opportunity to join the carnivore feeding tour when guests from the Lodge visit the large carnivores.

You will prepare and feed vegetables, fruit and mieiliepap to the baboons and farm animals; including pigs, sheep, chickens and leopard tortoises.

You will also help to maintain the animal enclosures on the farm, clearing out old food and mess, cleaning waterholes and removing old bones from feeding.


Animal time
You will get to spend part of each day playing with and looking after some of animals on the farm.

The orphaned baboons play a large part in out project. We currently have 16 young baboons from one to two years old and five baby baboons under a year old. Volunteers take the bigger baboons on a walk at least every other day in the field to allow them to forage naturally and to give them regular exercise.

Baby baboon walks currently take place everyday to give all our volunteers the chance to bond with our baby baboons. It's a great opportunity to enjoy the African sun, explore the farm and play with these cute babies. You will also rotate responsibility for bottle feeding and sleeping overnight with the five baby baboons which are currently too small to live in the camp with the young baboons.

You will get to spend time every week with our three semi-tame meerkats who live in the wild, our three legged cheetah, Lucky and with the semi tame cheetahs as well as walking or spending time with our four tame caracals.

Please remember that the animals are rescued, taken in, cared for and if possible, released into natural habitat again, therefore the variety and number of animals at the sanctuary can change.


Farm work, security & maintenance
Part of your daily routine will include building and maintenance both on the farm and around the perimeter. Farm work projects vary depending on what is currently needed on the farm. Previous projects volunteers have helped with include building fencing and trenches for our new vegetable patch which is now thriving and providing a range of vegetables for the animals, building a new baboon camp enclosure and play equipment for our bigger baboons to move into. You need to be prepared for hard work but it's very rewarding to see the results of your efforts.

You will take part in border fence patrol on the golf carts and carnivore enclosure patrol on foot with a trained farm worker.

As new animals arrive new enclosures may have to be built. You may need to assist the Bushmen with the preparation of materials, digging foundations and waterholes and the erecting of the enclosures.

Current long-term projects include:
De-bushing: Black thorn is an invader bush and takes up a lot of nutrients which means that better vegetation finds it very hard to survive. Volunteers will help to remove most of the very dense patches of black thorn from areas on the farm in order to allow other vegetation to grow and for game on the farm to become more visible.

Fence Break down: this is an important project to reach our goal of creating a large fenceless reserve in central Namibia allowing game and wildlife to roam freely for the benefit of conservation. Our volunteer workforce will play an important part in removing the lengths of fencing on our land and that joining our neighbours.


Assisting with the Bushman school
You will spend at least one morning assisting our teacher in the Bushman school on the farm, started to provide education to the children here, whose parents cannot afford to send them to school. This is a great fun and very rewarding activity.


During your time at N/a‘an ku sê, you will have the opportunity to enjoy a number of activities, included in the cost of the program. These may include; a nature walk across the farm or an eco challenge competing in groups against your fellow volunteers, followed by a braai (barbecue) and an overnight sleep out in the field, star gazing and waking up to a fantastic sunrise!
During your free time, there is a small swimming pool available for your use as well as a volley ball net and a lawn area for you to relax on in the sun
Occasionally the volunteers play football against the local Bushmen.


Additional activities which are not included in the cost of the program include; day trips to Windhoek to enjoy a Sunday buffet at the famous Jo's Beerhouse and dinner at our beautiful Charity Guest Lodge.
There may be the opportunity to go on a 4 x 4 Driving Course (N$500 for one and a half to two hours) or visit the local Arnhem Bat Caves (N$340).
 
     
     

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