{"id":506,"date":"2009-08-21T23:50:06","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T23:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/?page_id=506"},"modified":"2010-03-01T00:33:54","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T00:33:54","slug":"yebo-uganda","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/?page_id=506","title":{"rendered":"Volunteer with primates and children Africa 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Volunteering with chimpanzees and children<\/h1>\n

Yebo Uganda 13th-27th July 2010<\/h1>\n

Applications are now open<\/h3>\n

Yebo will be working in Uganda in April 2010 with primate keepers at a chimpanzee sanctuary,\u00a0 observing chimpanzees \"chimpanzee\"directly, learning about their behaviour, communication, feelings and emotions, relating this to humans and then applying this to the children you will be working with.<\/p>\n

Along side the staff and primate keepers in Uganda you will be working with children who have emotional and social disadvantages from various traumas and difficult life experiences such as victims of war and abuse, as well as local schools.\u00a0 Our aim is to relate human feelings and behaviour to that of primates (our closest relative) enabling the children to express their feelings and family situations in a safe and non-intrusive environment.<\/p>\n

Primate based communication activities allow children to use creative skills t\"Childreno express their feelings with art, role play and music activities. They will have the opportunity to learn about the behaviour similarities between us and them and the traumatic experiences that many of them have in common with primates to give them self esteem, build self confidence and aid communication and relationship building along with a therapeutic benefit. We also use communication aids such as primate faced feelings boards. The activities also aim to give a subtle educational message to the children about primates in Africa.\u00a0 Yebo will also aim to produce a book of children’s\u00a0 ‘primate feelings’ to be published in the UK raising awareness for child support organisations and primate education throughout Africa.<\/p>\n

Yebo aims to also support the animal sanctuaries and conservation projects in the local area using education and awareness.\u00a0 The children will work with volunteers at the sanctuaries. The volunteers will be working alongside the primate keepers observing and learning about the individual chimpanzee stories, behaviour and trauma, although children and volunteers will not have hands on contact with chimpanzees .\u00a0 This is due to conservation aspects and the safety of you and chimpanzees who are susceptible to illness such as coughs and colds that is passed onto them through humans. As we are staying within a sanctuary we will be observing and learning about the chimpanzees in their care, learning about behaviour, feelings and traumatic experiences that the primates have gone through that may have caused them psychological trauma.\u00a0 Again this also aims to have a further conservation and educational message.<\/p>\n

Activities such as puppet making, art work, drama plays, costume making, music, creating instruments and tree planting are just a few activities that volunteers and workers will be able to get involved in with the children working hands on with them.<\/p>\n

Your skills and interests will always be matched to what you enjoy or are interested in so we are able to help and support the children and organisations as best we can.<\/p>\n

Volunteers will stay within U.W.E.C (the Ugandan wildlife education centre) This is a secured area and volunteers will eat and live here for 2 weeks.<\/p>\n

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\u201cChimpanzees are 98.7% like humans. They get sad,happy,jealous, angry and they can even be very stubborn. Sometimes you forget they are not completely human<\/span><\/h2>\n
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Training<\/h1>\n

The training that we provide students in Africa focuses on the following;
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