Description

I run this guest farm in an environmental friendly way and that is why I also received, as the only guest farm in Namibia, the newly introduced Eco Award. We make use of only local staff and train some of them even without school education as much as possible. I like to make sure that all the kids will not only go to school but also finish the school. Our Kindergarten for employees' children is up and running and has been since June 2006. Apart from that I moved away from cattle farming towards practically only game. Here we have 4 Cites listed species which are to be specially protected: Cheetah, leopard, rhino and Hartmann Mountain Zebra. That is what we do.

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Highlights

Role of Volunteer
Running the kinder garden and teaching our local staff how to run a kinder garden. As a sideline, in addition, teaching any other skill they are good at, an advantage would be on the computer side: Word, Excel, email, Powerpoint, Publisher, but also any other skill, anything: communication, how to answer a telephone professionally etc.anything in a business or tourist environment or even beyond, music, singing.

Teach local guides and other employees practical English in relation to their tourist or wildlife activity.

On the wildlife side: research on leopards or other animals in our area.

Rhino tracking. We like to do some rhino tracking with tourists by foot, car or on horseback. For that we need to find out more about their home range. The volunteer should be good on foot or horseback and must be prepared to also sleep a few days in the field in a tent and cater for himself/herself. He/she will not be alone. GPS knowledge would be an advantage.

Eco-tourism. Fine tuning, monitoring and extending our eco-tourism project especially in relation to waste management, water management and energy management and non indigenous plants.

In general I am also always looking for volunteers who like to work with horses. This could be ideally combined with rhino tracking. (western style, but any knowledge and experience is good).

Continue a study about bush encroachment. We have started a study, and measured the density of bushes in different areas. Last year we had a big field fire and it would be interesting to measure the effect on the density of bushes.

Conduct personal research for your course back home Subjects include: Conservation of wildlife, Eco-tourism in Namibia, Sustainable development, Effects of tourists on local habitats (foot impacts, horse riding, tyre impacts etc)

Qualifications

All volunteers must be over 24 years of age.

Languages

• English

Cost in US$:

Free

Cost Includes:

• Food
• Housing
• In-country orientation/Training
• In-country staff support

Program Fees Include:

The volunteers are offered free food and accomodation.

Experience Required

no

Volunteer Types

Age Range

24+

This Program is open to

Worldwide Participants.

Typical Living Arrangements

• Dormitory

Participants Travel

Independently

Typically Participants Work

Independently

Application Process Involves

• Online Application plus Application Assessment

Typically The Application Process Time is

3 weeks

Post Services Include

• Job and Internship Network

Ecoteer's Mission Statement

To help locally run grass root organisations to achieve their aims via attracting paying volunteers and tourists. Plus we personally help develop and improve the projects we work with to help them to achieve their objectives.

Year Founded

2005