A place to call home

I adored volunteering at African Dawn for 8 weeks. All the staff and other volunteers are exceptionally helpful and friendly.

I am a vegetarian and had no problems with the food they cooked everyday as some of the full-time volunteers are vegetarians and always provided a tasty nutritional meal for lunch and dinner.

Caring for the animals is a great experience whether cutting up the fruit and sorting out the portions for their nutritional needs or cleaning and filling their water and enclousures. So many jobs to help out with, there are too many to mention.

I love African Dawn because I truly believe in their cause for helping injured South African wildlife, no matter how small. Some will be rehabilitated back into the wild but for the ones no longer well enough to survive in the wild they are found a new home in the sanctuary for life.

Most of the animals are socialable and love to come over and say hello. There are so many animals of all shapes and sizes from chickens, geese, small birds, parrots, birds of prey, emus, Marge the adorable Ostrich. Kudo's, meerkats, marmosets, spider monkeys, Lynx, Servals, Duikers, wallabys, cheetahs and many more. They all have such different personalities and you will learn to love all of them for their strange and wonderful habbits.

African Dawn is like a second home for me and I highly recommend this sanctuary. I have plans to go back at the end of this year and will definatly be staying for longer next time :)