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| This project provides you with a rare and
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You will spend at least three mornings assisting the 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. Subjects taught include English language, Literacy, Numeracy, conservation,
arts and crafts, circle games and physical activities. The number of children changes
frequently with around 25, aged between 2 and 15 currently attending. Afrikaans is spoken
by some of the children, but the main language is Bushman. Gaining the trust and friendship
of the children is the key to this rewarding and exciting role.
Planning, initiative and creativity are vital skills and you will have the opportunity to
improve the school facilities and inject your own ideas and experience to develop the school
and improve the children's education.
During the rest of your time you will care for and feed the injured or orphaned animals in
the sanctuary as well as cleaning enclosures and helping to develop and maintain the
sanctuary. The animals that make their home here include mammals as diverse and exciting as
lions, cheetahs, baboons, meerkats, jackals and much more. Our baboons form a large part of
the project; volunteers become surrogate mums for the little ones, bottle feeding and
sleeping overnight with them. They also go for walks with any babies currently at the
sanctuary and our tame bigger baboons. We cannot predict when young baboons will arrive
at the sanctuary so the numbers and ages may vary but there are currently over 20 ranging
from around six months to two years old.
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