Volunteering in Africa with primates and children

Volunteer with primates and children in Africa and the UK summer 2010

All projects are open to anyone with an interest in working with children and animals.  Help us develop this project, anyone between the age of 17-80!, gap year students, students studying, health care workers, health professionals, volunteers, working adults and anyone who wants to use their skills and interests. No experience necessary. Work with monkeys, primates and children.

Volunteering projects in Uganda and South Africa

With primates, animals and children.

Work with monkeys, primates and children, by volunteering in Africa in 2010 with primates, animals and children. Volunteering is open to gap-year volunteers, students, health professionals, career breaks and anyone who wants to experience these projects. There is no age limit and all applicants are given  in depth training on the projects we are focused on allowing you to support and benefit the children and animals you are working with.

Yebo aims to support children with emotional and social disadvantages through primate and animal-based communication activities.

We aim to relate human feelings, behaviour and emotions to that of primates (our closest relatives) allowing children to express their feelings and life expeiriences in a safe and non intrusive environment.

South Africa

In  South Africa we will be working with children from a special needs school who along with physical disabilities are victims of severe traumas in their lives such as abuse and witnessing the murders  of family members.  We are able to support these children, their carers and teachers with hands on and creative animal, primate-based communication activities. read more and apply now…..

Uganda

In Uganda we will be working with primate keepers who work with chimpanzees, learning about their behaviour, feelings, communications and emotions and then applying this to the children we will be working with.  The local children are from different family backgrounds who have had traumas and social and emotional disadvantages. The projects you will taking part in allow these children to observe chimpanzees and work together with you and the staff to learn how to communicate their feelings through chimpanzee primate-based communication activities. This also aims to have a subtle educational experience about conserving primates in Africa.

UK

UK Yebo projects focus on child support organisations.  We are currently working with children’s hospices around the country working with siblingssupported by the hospice’s.  Primate days are run using primate-based communication activities to allow children to express their felings through relating their own family situations of loss and grief to that of Primates, who also suffer from this in the wild. This is done through creative activities such as puppet making and role play.