Volunteering for Donkey Lovers on Mannar island, Sri Lanka
- Sri Lanka
About Program
We have several projects that you can help us with:
- Donkey Clinic (for people with veterinary experience/ veterinary students): provide medical care for injured donkeys (first-aid, vaccination, daily check-ups, surgery...)
- Donkey Education Center: taking care of our donkeys (grooming, feeding, cleaning stalls), giving tours of our project, carrying out educational training for school classes and other groups
- Donkey-Aided Therapy (for people with a therapeutic background/ students in therapy disciplines): help with and offer therapy sessions to local children with special needs.
- Tuition center: teach Math, English, Tamil, and/or Singhala to local children
- Merchandise production: teach our merchandise production staff new tailoring/ sewing/ handicraft techniques, develop new merchandise prototypes, implement marketing and business strategies
- Building projects: sometimes, we need to renovate or add new parts to our buildings. We are always happy about helping hands!
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Program Highlights
- Work with donkeys
- Off the beaten tourist tracks
- Hosted by a local family
- You can live with the family or on the project site
- Enjoy authentic homemade food that is hard to find in other places in Sri Lanka
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Location
If you want to spend your days by the water doing yoga, or in the water surfing; Sri Lanka is perfect for either. Sri Lanka has been an up and coming destination for years and is still relatively uncrowded.
