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in cooperation with the sending organisation, hosting organisation, volunteer and AAP (hosting organisation) WHAT KIND OF EVS PLACES STICHTING AAP AND STICHTING TRIPIN OFFER 1. animal fostering: (2 volunteers) • Works together with an experienced animal caretaker and get functional help. • Cleans and take care of the places where the animals stay. • Helps in creating the places where the animals stay (putting the attributes on the right places) and make this places ready for the animals. • Does fortification and does behavior observation on the animals. • Feed the animals. • Doing small maintenance. • Doing combined activities on the division. • Registers anomalies and report this to the experienced animal foster. In AAP everything is about the animals. They will always come first. The team leaders decide if you are up to more responsibilities. It has happened that one EVS volunteer has a lot of responsibilities and the others have less. This has to do with motivation and reliability. It is up to your attitude towards the work, NGO AAP, and other colleages, if you are chosen to join this project, how your responsibilities and tasks evolve during your EVS project. PROFILE OF THE EVS VOLUNTEER As this project is the maximum amount of time possible in a EVS project the volunteer must realize that AAP as hosting organization and Tripin as coordinating organization have some desires due to skills the volunteer must have. • Being able to speak good English. Almost everybody in the Netherlands speaks very good English. You will develop your English skills further on in communicating with your fellow volunteers at AAP. Without the volunteer speaking English we will have a lot of problems to communicate. This is the most important criteria and this will be checked if you are pre-selected to do your EVS at Stichting AAP. • Being motivated. A project that last for 12 months is in need of motivated volunteers. Please show us in your motivation letter why you want to join one of the two projects mentioned above. • Having experience with working in a NGO.
It would be good if (s)he would have a small experience in being active in an NGO in his/her own country to show that the person really wants to take part in exactly this project • Having affinity and experience in the work with animals. Aap his main activity is taking care of exotic animals wich have no other place to go. The volunteer must realize that the most of the animals are being prepared to go back in the wild. This means they will not be handled as pets. We call this the ‘hands off policy’ The interaction between the caretaker and the animal will always be as low as possible. You will need to get your satisfaction of the fact that the animals grow towards their life in the wild. • Being able to deal with strict protocols For your safety and for the sake of the animals there are strict protocols to work by. You must be able to work by these protocols. Mistakes can be dangerous for you, your colleagues and the animals. • Being able to find a decent sending organization or being member of one. It’s important for the project that there is a decent sending organization which prepares you to join this EVS project. They will provide you a pre-departure training and give information about The Netherlands. • Having no problem to work one day in the weekend Unfortunately exotic animals don’t have a weekend brake like we do. This means you have to work one Saturday or Sunday every week. Of course in return you will get one day free during the mid-week. • Understand that this EVS is very hard and physical work. This EVS project is a lot of physical work depending on the apartment where you will work there will be 30% up to 60% of cleaning. This cleaning is not a bad thing; you can enjoy the animals while you are doing it. Unfortunately we cannot make exceptions in this amount of cleaning because other non-EVS volunteers at AAP will not agree to this. That is why you need to be passionate about the animals. Otherwise you will not enjoy this EVS. • Having no allergies. Having allergies for cats for example is a bit problematic if you have to feed a lion. (yes we had one last year)
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