Join Wildlife Rescue Volunteering Projects for Animal Welfare

Whether you are looking for a good cause to be a part of, a community service project to add to your school credits or something to boost your resume, joining volunteer projects that focus on wildlife rescue and animal welfare offer a world of benefits. If you enjoy spending time with animals and are compelled to make a difference for the benefit of their welfare, lending a hand on these types of volunteer projects is the perfect way to spend your time.

Volunteering in animal shelters, sanctuaries, and wildlife rescue centres means more than cleaning up after animals. Rescue facilities and centres not only recruit people who are willing to spend time caring for animals, but are always on the lookout for people with varying capacities including:

• tech savvy animal lovers who can help with their web presence
• event planners and artists who can help run outreach events and advertise their cause
• handy people who are skilled at building structures, play equipment, shelters, and other types of facilities for the animals
• writers and artists who can create compelling stories and presentations, pet profiles, photos, and videos to share with the world
• legal experts who can help lobby for animal welfare issues.

No matter what your passions and specialties are, everyone has something to offer these kinds of organisations.

Participating in these kinds of volunteer activities offer a wide range of personal benefits that may even enhance your life and change your outlook forever:

• First and most importantly, wildlife rescue volunteering projects help you make a difference in the world by enhancing the lives of animals and providing a better world for the animals that the foundation or organisation are helping. You can help raise awareness about animal welfare, which in turn enables others to make a difference themselves.
• Secondly, you are likely to meet likeminded people who are working towards the same cause. Volunteering together in an environment that involves helping animals has a way of bringing people together and with that comes the formation of long term, meaningful friendships. On projects such as these you are surrounded with caring people who are there working hard towards a common goal.
• Thirdly, you learn something new in each country you visit and each person you meet, and with each experience and encounter you enjoy, you will become culturally richer for it.

Finally, you can get an edge in life with all the learning that you acquire through your volunteering experiences and the relationships you build. Learn about caring for all kinds of animals, travel to some interesting and foreign places, meeting people you would never have met before, seeing how different cultures cope with living with animals and learning from the staff and wildlife shelter workers who devote their lives to protecting animals.

About the Author:

This article is written by Tracy Leske. She is the Director of Oceans2earth.org. It is a website of a non-political, non-religious organisation that provides opportunities for individuals to interact with people of diverse cultures. They offer amazing volunteering and adventure travel experiences for ethically minded animal and conservation lovers looking for the trip of a lifetime.

This article is written by Josephine Kent, Marketing Coordinator of Oceans 2 Earth Volunteers, an organization that provides opportunities for volunteers to work with animals on a variety of animal.