Summers Thailand Elephant Volunteer Trip
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My names Summer, I am 14 and a student from Woodham Academy in Newton Aycliffe.
I have the opportunity to head off to Thailand next Summer 2020 for 2 weeks to volunteer at Chiang Mai Elephant Sanctuary.
After a strict application process and interview 14 students from Woodham Academy school have been chosen to go on one of the best experiences of my life.
The trip will start off in Bangkok for a couple of days before heading off to Chiang Mai north of Thailand. I will spend a full week at the Sanctuary working sometimes over 12 hour shifts caring for such beautiful animals, Elephants.
What do volunteers Achieve?
Volunteer at Elephant Nature Park and help to improve the plight of the Asian elephant. Make a real contribution to conservation in Northern Thailand. The park provides sanctuary for disabled, blind, and orphaned elephants that have often been abused as working animals and for street begging. You will actively be helping improve their lives and the conditions in which they live
Developed by Sangduen "Lek" Chailert this award winning project portrays aspects of culture, fauna and flora impossible to experience elsewhere.
We offer sanctuary to elephants, numerous dogs, cats, birds, buffalo and many other rescued animals.
Volunteering at the park offers visitors the opportunity to engage with the animals with no riding and, for many, it is an enriching and life-changing experience. Volunteers can feed the elephants regularly, as well as learn more about their care. During free time, there are many activities to enjoy such as cultural lessons and walks. Your volunteer experience includes six nights of lodging in private and shared rooms and three meals a day.
What i I will be doing?
Breakfast is at 7:00 am and dinner is at 6:00pm.
Each day I’ll help prepare the elephants food, have the satisfaction of feeding them and the moving experience of watching the delight they have bathing in the river. This is all against a backdrop of witnessing how they behave in their natural habitat. During my stay I will see for myself the challenges facing elephant conservation in Thailand and the part that this project plays in the preservation of their herd.
Cutting food from the plantations and helping with any maintenance tasks around the park. This is a great way to understand and enjoy all parts of the conservation mission, whilst enjoying a place tucked away from the beaten track.
Elephant volunteers activities include some or all of the following;
Area Introduction and meeting with the staff and mahouts
Experience Elephant Families and how they choose friends
Find out about the problems facing elephant in Thailand today
Discover how Elephant Nature Park is helping
Feed elephants, Scooping elephant poo, a variety of tasks concerned with elephant care.
Cleaning and preparing elephant food
Construction, maintaining mud pits, helping in local villages, walking
Caring for dogs and more.
What i I will come away with from this trip?
This opportunity will give me much independence, a hardworking background, huge responsibility, a loving caring nature, trust, friendship, confidence and appreciation of other cultures & their surroundings.
I need to raise in total on my own and not from Mum & Dads pocket a total of £1850. The first payment of £250 must be paid by 31st July this year.
Please can I kindly ask for some help in helping me raise the funds for this trip, even £1 will help me massively. I will be doing other fund raising tasks including,
Cake sales
Car Washing
Sweetie Cones
Sponsored Leg Wax (not to be missed)
Bag Packing in Tesco
Sponsored Bike Ride
and more.
I am using Go Fund Me as my main source of fund raising.
Thank you you for your time and I really do appreciate the help.
Summer x
https://www.facebook.com/WoodhamThailandExperience/
https://www.elephantnaturepark.org
My names Summer, I am 14 and a student from Woodham Academy in Newton Aycliffe.
I have the opportunity to head off to Thailand next Summer 2020 for 2 weeks to volunteer at Chiang Mai Elephant Sanctuary.
After a strict application process and interview 14 students from Woodham Academy school have been chosen to go on one of the best experiences of my life.
The trip will start off in Bangkok for a couple of days before heading off to Chiang Mai north of Thailand. I will spend a full week at the Sanctuary working sometimes over 12 hour shifts caring for such beautiful animals, Elephants.
What do volunteers Achieve?
Volunteer at Elephant Nature Park and help to improve the plight of the Asian elephant. Make a real contribution to conservation in Northern Thailand. The park provides sanctuary for disabled, blind, and orphaned elephants that have often been abused as working animals and for street begging. You will actively be helping improve their lives and the conditions in which they live
Developed by Sangduen "Lek" Chailert this award winning project portrays aspects of culture, fauna and flora impossible to experience elsewhere.
We offer sanctuary to elephants, numerous dogs, cats, birds, buffalo and many other rescued animals.
Volunteering at the park offers visitors the opportunity to engage with the animals with no riding and, for many, it is an enriching and life-changing experience. Volunteers can feed the elephants regularly, as well as learn more about their care. During free time, there are many activities to enjoy such as cultural lessons and walks. Your volunteer experience includes six nights of lodging in private and shared rooms and three meals a day.
What i I will be doing?
Breakfast is at 7:00 am and dinner is at 6:00pm.
Each day I’ll help prepare the elephants food, have the satisfaction of feeding them and the moving experience of watching the delight they have bathing in the river. This is all against a backdrop of witnessing how they behave in their natural habitat. During my stay I will see for myself the challenges facing elephant conservation in Thailand and the part that this project plays in the preservation of their herd.
Cutting food from the plantations and helping with any maintenance tasks around the park. This is a great way to understand and enjoy all parts of the conservation mission, whilst enjoying a place tucked away from the beaten track.
Elephant volunteers activities include some or all of the following;
Area Introduction and meeting with the staff and mahouts
Experience Elephant Families and how they choose friends
Find out about the problems facing elephant in Thailand today
Discover how Elephant Nature Park is helping
Feed elephants, Scooping elephant poo, a variety of tasks concerned with elephant care.
Cleaning and preparing elephant food
Construction, maintaining mud pits, helping in local villages, walking
Caring for dogs and more.
What i I will come away with from this trip?
This opportunity will give me much independence, a hardworking background, huge responsibility, a loving caring nature, trust, friendship, confidence and appreciation of other cultures & their surroundings.
I need to raise in total on my own and not from Mum & Dads pocket a total of £1850. The first payment of £250 must be paid by 31st July this year.
Please can I kindly ask for some help in helping me raise the funds for this trip, even £1 will help me massively. I will be doing other fund raising tasks including,
Cake sales
Car Washing
Sweetie Cones
Sponsored Leg Wax (not to be missed)
Bag Packing in Tesco
Sponsored Bike Ride
and more.
I am using Go Fund Me as my main source of fund raising.
Thank you you for your time and I really do appreciate the help.
Summer x
https://www.facebook.com/WoodhamThailandExperience/
https://www.elephantnaturepark.org
Organizer
Clare Smith
Organizer