You will sleep in a tent village, work with monkeys,
or on projects such as building or painting to
benefit the monkeys & have time off to visit
local waterfalls, rivers, or other sites of interest.
At the VMF, you will get to participate in a variety
of tasks depending on the time of year to help
the monkeys from feeding orphaned babies to constructing
new enclosures. This is an ideal project for anyone
who has ever dreamed of working with primates.
The duties that you will have to undertake are
varied and change during the year and all volunteers
are tasked to do a variety of chores, such as,
collecting & cleaning baby bottles, and making
baby formula, cleaning and preparing bowls of
fruit & vegetables for the monkeys,, washing monkey blankets, monitoring monkeys
in enclosures, working in our sickbay area, tent village duties, occasional cooking, washing food bowls and preparing
cereals or milk for monkeys.
In addition, volunteers will also help with the
building of new enclosures for monkeys. Construction
involves building, painting, sanding, welding,
fence-building, knot-tying, firebreaks & invader species
eradication. Sometimes you might be asked to cut
grass & prepare thatch bundles for construction,
or to letter & paint signs for enclosures.
Other areas you may help with are driving, fundraising,
office work, or data input. We are conducting
an identification of all the monkeys and any volunteer
who is good at this sort of activity is most welcome
to be trained how to identify monkeys and update
our data base.
