The Animal Care Project in Fiji serves the purpose of caring for unwanted animals and helping to educate the local people about the importance of a animal care awareness including spay and neutering. You may be a pre-university student considering a career in veterinary medicine, an undergraduate, a qualified vet or animal lover. What ever your skill level we have opportunities for you to get your hands dirty!
Volunteers work at various animal shelters in around the Nadi / Lautoka area. The veterinary doctors who work in the clinics will be able to share their knowledge and experience with you. You will gain valuable general and specialist animal experience sure to boost your resume in a highly competitive field.
When you volunteer with animals, you’ll assist with the general running of animal centres. Feeding, training, exercise, bathing, grooming, and loving the animals will be your main tasks, however volunteers with specialist skills can get involved in procedures and operations. There is always a need for administrative assistance in the office as well as marketing and advertising support campaigning and educational materials. In conclusion, you will see first hand how the running of a animal shelter works.
IMPORTANT: As we are a non-for-profit charity organisation, all volunteers are required to meet a minimum
fundraising commitment in addition to the program fees, to assist with the running costs of our organisation.
The fundraising commitment is FJD 200 if you are placed for one week, FJD 350 for two weeks and FJD 500 for
placements of three weeks or longer.
The fundraising commitment can be either a cash donation or alternatively supplies to the equivalent value.
*Stays over over 4 weeks will need to be approved on a case-by-case basis.
Location
Nadi is the main tourist hub with lots of back-packers places and night life. It’s also well known for for Denerau Marina where many large 5 star resorts are and western style shopping. Denerau is the gateway to the Fiji islands, which is the most popular choice for most holiday goers’ to Fiji. We’ll likely take you here and show you around as part of the orientation or if you’re heading out to the remote island teaching placement.
Lautoka, located 20 min north of Nadi, is a lovely and safe working class harbour city with many areas to explore (eg. hiking trails, mud pools etc). You will be spending time in the working class areas where the genuine needs exist.
Project Tasks
Daily Tasks include the following below
– Cleaning out Kennels
– Feeding Animals
– Vaccinations
– Operations and inspections
– De-sexing education
– Cuddling and caring for the animals
– Applying ointment and oral medications
– Adoptive services
– Phone & administration
Periodic Tasks may include the following below (only sometimes required)
– Sanitation projects
– Helping to run a pet fair
– Training local people
– To teach young people skills in animal care. (When required)
– Work on the development of material on pet care and the marketing of pet care for example, developing (When required)
– School visit packages (including posters and talks) you will find entertaining and interesting.
*Please note
The distance from the Host Family to the Animal Shelter is
20km. There is no direct bus Service from the Host Family to the Animal
Shelter so there are a few options to get and from the Animal Shelter;
- Option 1 includes walking
and catching the Bus which can take approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes
one way and will cost around $FJD4 one way.
- Option 2 is a combination
of taxi and Bus which will cost you around FJD$15 one way and will take
approximately 1 hour one way.
- Option 3 is door to door
taxi service which will cost you FJD$30 one way and will take
approximately 30 Minutes.
