Volunteering with the lions in South Africa
Esendex offers employees days off work
to do volunteering and charity work. Katherine, our Management Accountant packed her rucksack and headed off to South Africa, to volunteer at a lion park near to Johannesburg.
In Katherine’s spare time she runs a Brownie pack. They’ve recently been learning about animals so the opportunity was perfect for her to bring back first hand information as well as being a great experience for herself.
Katherine’s had a fantastic experience (returning to the office with only a few lion bite injuries). Take a look at what she got up to below.
Our first job of each day was to clear up the lion cub enclosures before the public came in, these cubs were 1-6 months old, but were not as tiny as I was first expecting! We also had to play with them and teach them not to bite / scratch the public that came into the enclosure to pet them.
Other duties involved preparing food for the animals that were there, which included cheetahs, hyenas, wild dogs, porcupines, jackals, aardwolf, lions, giraffe, meerkats and many more. We had to go and collect termites from their mounds to feed the meerkats and aardwolf as a treat. (more…)
he problem ? You’re sitting in the stands enjoying the game with your kids when someone behind you starts yelling foul and abusive language, racist chants or causing trouble. You can’t tackle them, for fear of what they might do (especially if they’ve had a few beers). Getting a steward or the police over will draw attention to you and let the yob know that it was you who complained. So you put up with it or you leave early – but either way you probably won’t want to take your family to the City Ground in a hurry again.
