O2E does not create projects for volunteers.
We believe in supporting local organisations that have identified a genuine need for intervention at a local level and are sustainable and effective in their approaches.
Volunteers can create lifelong friendships with other volunteers they meet, and through shared interests and experiences, they take home with them new outlooks and ideas, often changing careers or developing new interests such as fundraising, campaigning, wildlife photography or sustainable living. That’s how O2E got started! You can even become a member of our organisation and support our various campaigns and fundraising activities. These can include starting up an elephant dung paper operation in Thailand, sponsoring wildlife sanctuary land or building an animal rescue centre in Africa.
Whichever O2E project you embark upon, you will be exposed to what will be one of the most enjoyable, challenging, memorable and life-changing experiences you will ever undertake. The hardest part will be leaving the animals you have worked so closely with and saying goodbye with the new friends you’ve made!
The benefits of volunteering with O2E:
Participants gain a wide range of life skills when they undertake a volunteering project with O2E. These skills are often the ones employers identify as lacking in new recruits but are highly valued. Life skills such as initiative, effective communication, decision making skills, confidence, patience, understanding and the achievement of goals.
O2E in the Global Economy
O2E assists in creating local employment in the global regions where we provide volunteers. Your presence creates jobs including builders, cooks, labourers, transporters, tour guides, cleaners, maintenance, administration and support staff. Your contribution creates opportunities for specialty or qualified staff including wildlife carers, specialists and veterinarian staff to work permanently within an organisation. O2E takes measures to ensure that we do not reduce employment opportunities for local people.
We welcome approaches from potential partners such as rescue and rehabilitation centres, animal orphanages and sanctuaries as O2E seeks to broaden our own partnerships and to make contributions to those worthwhile projects needing our help.
