Wednesday 7 June 2017

Just How Important is Animal Volunteer Work Abroad!


We all are living in a world where we are not happy about so many things around us and wish that things change. But we forget that the change has to be brought by the society only and we all are an indispensable part of the society. We have to bring the required change to make things better.

There are many issues that need our attention today and one such thing is volunteering for animal safety. Animals in need our assisted by many well known organizations all around the world. These organisations are doing an extremely great job and there are many people who have voluntarily joined such organizations, either on a part time basis or as a full time job.

There are people who go for a holiday abroad and can spare one or two days for animal volunteer work abroad.  Also, many people are on a yearly break from work and can commit their services for a year to help the organisations to take care of the animals.

For such voluntary action, the most important requisite is that you are an animal lover. If you don’t have the passion to help these creatures you can’t do it just for the sake of doing it.

How much ever time you can offer, it does not matter. All that matters is that you give it your best. It will definitely help the animals and the organisations helping them will be benefited in some way or the other. There is an immense opportunity for passionate people in this field.

The work profile would include monitoring wild dolphins, nursing the sick animals, a job in the cat houseboat sanctuary, feeding hungry wolves, attending the injured animals, taking dogs for a walk, helping with the transportation of animals for their re-homing, taking care of orphaned fox cubs, neutering and returning the stray animals back to their colonies, turtle monitoring, and providing love and care to some distressed animals.

Those who are willing to have a career with the animal’s safety shall use this volunteering stage in understanding the different complexities of this job and decide about taking up a job in the same field in the future.

Interested people get a hands on experience and knowledge on the many career options during this period. If you are in a stage of dilemma and are not sure about your career options, you have a great opportunity to decide during this voluntary period of work. And if you are already clear that you want to make a career in animal safety, even then, you can gain good experience with the specific type of animal care which you aspire.       
There are organisations that provide such voluntary work to animal lovers where they can travel, gain experience and contribute to the work.

One such nonprofit organisation working for the welfare of animal and wildlife habitat is ‘Oceans 2 Earth’. It is an Australian company that take up projects in and outside Australia like, Asia and Africa.