Project Costs
The cost for 1 week $890.00, 2 weeks $1,120.00, 3 weeks $1,350.00, 4 weeks $1,580.00, 5 weeks $1,810.00, 6 weeks $2,040.00, 7 weeks $2,270.00, 8 weeks $2,500.00, 9 weeks $2,730.00, 10 weeks $2,960.00, 11 weeks $3,190.00, 12 weeks $3,420.00 (TBC and converted)
This covers all your food, water and accommodation at the project, project training and supervision and WorkingAbroad Projects backup and placement support. As an intern, you can join from 3-6 months, and costs start at £2950 for 3 months. Volunteers/interns will also receive free transfers from their hotel in Colombo to the project site. TBC (SAME AS ELEPHANTS CURRENTLY)
Your airfare to and from Sri Lanka, travel/medical insurance, airport and project transfers, visa fee and personal expenses are not included within this price. It is mandatory for you to take out travel and medical insurance for the duration of the project (including cover for Covid 19).TBC (SAME AS ELEPHANTS CURRENTLY)
For more details on the costs for staying longer than 4 weeks, or if wanting to join as a family or group, then please contact us.
Please note that currently – only fully Covid vaccinated volunteers are able to join this programme and you must also supply a negative PCR test no older than 72 hours.
Payment Terms
To secure your placement on the project, please complete and submit the form with your application payment of £180. If for some reason, your application is not accepted, we will reimburse this payment fully. However, for those who are accepted, you will be required to pay the final balance 2 months before arrival. Once we have confirmed your place, you will receive an information package on the programme, the work you will do, suggested items to bring, how to travel there etc.
How are your funds used? TBC (SAME AS ELEPHANTS CURRENTLY)
The fees that volunteers/interns pay will cover any expenses related to their stay at the project (accommodation, food, water, etc). However, there’s more to conducting research and providing a safe environment for everyone on the project. To conduct fieldwork requires a fair amount of logistical support, especially in areas such as our project site, where dangerous wild animals such as elephants, leopards, sloth bears, and buffalo range freely. Ensuring the safety and security of volunteers and interns is a huge undertaking that is given the highest priority. There is always experienced staff personnel with them even when they are in the field house, the staff are always in the vicinity. Providing a safe environment to conduct the work means it’s needed to provide the necessary field equipment, as well as a large well-trained field staff team to provide a safe volunteer/intern to staff ratio in the field.
The fee volunteers and interns pay gets allocated to cover all the projects and operations costs in the following way: Accommodation (8%), Food (12%), Transport (18%) Staff costs (14%), Wildlife Conservation contribution (40%) and local community project fund donations (8%).
Project Dates TBC (SAME AS ELEPHANTS CURRENTLY)
Please note that the dates below are flexible, and you can join the project starting on any Monday throughout the year. The minimum duration is 1 week and we would advise arrival on a Sunday (or at least one day before your start date) for a Monday morning pickup from your hotel.
