Make 2012 the year you do something amazing for animals and sign up today to OneKind’s Thailand Wildlife Rescue Challenge.
Have you ever dreamed of helping animals return to the wild? Would you love to rehabilitate exotic animals rescued and recovering from being captured as pets? Could you spend one week of your life making sure sick and injured animals are properly cared for in the best possible habitats?
OneKind is offering you the chance to volunteer in Thailand and take part in an unforgettable challenge to save wild animals and their habitat from destruction.
Sign up today!
Make the pledge to raise £2,500 for your your unique chance to support OneKind and look after beautiful wild animals, including 5 different species of macaque, 2 species of gibbon, civets, a tiger, sun bears and Asiatic black bears, a crocodile and exotic birds at a Thai wildlife sanctuary set in idyllic temple grounds.
By focusing on rehabilitating captive or domesticated animals, volunteers at the sanctuary work to prepare animals, wherever possible, for reintroduction to their natural habitats. It also provides a permanent sanctuary for those that cannot be rehabilitated.
All you need to do to take part in this amazing adventure is fundraise a minimum of £2,500. OneKind’s Fundraiser will help you with all the support and advice you need to reach your target. By taking part you will not only make a major contribution to the welfare of animals in Thailand, you will also be directly supporting the sanctuary as well as OneKind's campaigns to end animal cruelty.
Spaces are limited, so don’t let this once-in-a-lifetime chance pass you by. Get in touch now to sign up for OneKind’s Thailand Wildlife Challenge, and make your dream to help animals in 2012 come true.
I support the work you do, but I’m not a fan of the proposed Thai Wildlife Challenge. I don’t like this eco-tourism thing, and don’t give money to folks raising cash in part so that they can get a holiday out of it. Surely better to educate, raise revenue and awareness and as much as possible encourage and support local people and authorities to do the kind of work required, rather than fund an an aeroplane of well-intentioned One Kinders?
Thanks for your comment Xavier. Please be assured however that the Wildlife Challenge is not a holiday, but a challenge event where volunteers will have to work hard for a week looking after wild animals rescued from maltreatment.
The volunteers support local people by helping with educational tours of the sanctuary and the fundraising will go to support both the sanctuary in Thailand and OneKind’s campaigns to end animal cruelty.
Xavier, how can you be so negative about this fantastic opportunity for regular people to help out at this sanctuary?! People who wish to take part in this CHALLENGE may want to do so for a number of reasons and not just because it has the advantage of being abroad. I’m sure a ‘holiday’ is not the first thing that springs to mind to those who have animal welfare at heart. People who live in the UK may never get the chance to experience and help these beautiful animals first hand and this is the perfect opportunity for ordinary people to do so, with thanks of the hard-working volenteers of One Kind for setting up such an experience. Surely this can only be positve?
Hi Jennifer, I’m not being ‘so negative’, it’s just a point of view. The earth is a beautiful place, and there are many, many places that would be wonderful to visit, and help. That’s why this campaign seems so attractive, in an exotic part of the world. We should all be aware of the environment, as well as helping animals and local people. I’ll do my hands on work here, and help to raise funds for projects in other parts of the world, but I won’t be spending hundreds of pounds on plane fares to do it.
Vavier,
While it is important to be able to express your view, it is also helpful if it is an informed view. This opportunity has arisen because of a request from the sanctuary, which depends on volunteers from around the world, to help with their amazing work. If such help was not given the sanctuary, like many others around the world, would not exist. It is not just a case of giving one’s treasure, but also our time, talent and physical resource. Not all cultures are as well informed as those in the west and major developed countries. Part of the exchange is to meet with local people, who would not perceive some of their actions toward animals as being cruel. This creates an opportunity for exchange of dialogue and ideas.
The people who will participate, will as well as all the above, be giving their time to fundraise and be contributing from their own pockets toward costs.
It is not a case of doing one without the other. Most people who are attracted to this, give also to support work in the UK. Have a look through this site for examples.
I think it is sad that such amazing acts of altruism attract such negativity. Of course that’s only my view!!