Volunteer Programs in Lilongwe, Malawi

1. Feeling that I was contributing to saving beautiful orphaned animals that would hopefully be released back into their own environment was incredibly uplifting, moving and meaningful. 2. Being able to experience the above and marvel at the effort and dedication everyone puts in with very limited financial resource. 3. Interacting with and Seeing, experiencing the endless joy, laughter, smiling faces of the children at the education centre, the positivity and curiosity of a people who have very little materially, but are really very rich in their souls and unselfishness.

While undertaking biodiversity monitoring research volunteering, I had the chance to participate multiple times in lion capture and collaring and release. I was involved with the team where we darted particular lions, performed brief health checks, documented important lion identification information and put on collars. I was mostly there to help and take notes but on one of the days, I got to do the eye drops by myself which was really cool.