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Volunteers are needed for the Umpalazi: Community & Wildlife Project.

This project incorporates local community upliftment, including skills training, environmental education and aid work; with the rehabilitation of injured and/or orphaned wildlife for future release and monitoring. Umpalazi also provides sanctuary for other displaced animals. Volunteers are needed to keep this project going. Volunteers will have a unique opportunity to work closely with South African wildlife, primarily the South African Vervet Monkey.

Volunteers will have a direct and positive impact on the conservation of wildlife and the environment through snare/trap clearing; game counts; bird watching; invasive weed removal and other environmental management activities.

There are also opportunities to live with a Zulu family (for a day etc.), and visit other attractions in KwaZulu-Natal (i.e. CROW, Game Reserves, St.Lucia Wetlands etc.)

The Umpalazi: Community & Wildlife Project relies on volunteer fees to survive, thus without them, there would be no project. Therefore if you volunteer at Umpalazi, you are directly conserving South Africa's wildlife (particulary vervet monkeys) and environment.

Numerous orphaned and injured vervet monkeys are rehabililtated at APES (project partner) and, thus Umpalazi, and as a volunteer you will provide the resources and help to give these beings a chance at a better life.

The local Zulu community also benefit greatly via employment, skills training (an upcoming project, again depending on the number of volunteers due to limited funds), environmental education and aid work.

Please visit www.umpalazi.org/Working_Volunteer.html for more information

For more information, or to apply please visit our website at www.umpalazi.org
or contact Danielle Enright (co-founder) at de@umpalazi.org