Primate Update E-Newsletter, Vol. 3, Issue 9, Part 2

WHAT’S HAPPENING at PPS?

COO Erin and Intern Caroline represented Pacific Primate Sanctuary at the Seabury Hall Volunteer Fair. Seabury is a local High School, and each year they bring in non-profit organizations to speak to the students about volunteer opportunities within the community. Many students were very interested to learn more about the Sanctuary, and quite a few left with Volunteer Applications! We are looking forward to hearing back, and bringing in some new Volunteers.

PPS Intern, Caroline, speaks with interested students at Seabury Hall

Thank You to Nick for all your help around the Sanctuary over the summer! Nick has been volunteering at PPS every Sunday for the last several months, doing a wide variety of projects. He built a new compost box, pruned, fixed drawers, and latches, powerwashed, and helped get rid of slugs just to name a few of the wonderful things he has accomplished. It has truly been a pleasure having his good energy here, and we are all in awe of his skills and amazing fix-it abilities. Nick had to head back to the mainland but he has told us he will be coming back and we all look forward to seeing him again.



Helping the Monkeys
We are currently in need of more local volunteers! If you live on Maui and are interested in becoming one of Pacific Primate Sanctuary’s Angels, and volunteering your time and skills please e-mail us at PPS@aloha.net. We are looking for Animal Caregiver Volunteers, as well as Office Assistants, Handymen and Handywomen, and Gardeners/Landscapers.

How to Donate Directly
We deeply appreciate your continued partnership. You, and your family and friends, can make tax-deductible donations to the Sanctuary on our Website: www.pacificprimate.org and on FaceBook, using PayPal, or by sending a check to:

Pacific Primate Sanctuary

500-A Haloa Road

Haiku, HI 96708

With your support, you make everything we do possible!

PPS INTERNSHIP

Welcome to our newest Resident Intern, Annabel
Annabel traveled all the way from Kent, England to be our September 2011-2012 Resident Intern! She has recently completed a degree in Animal Conservation and Biodiversity. Annabel has experience working with gorillas at Howlett’s Zoo, as well as working with baboons at the Born Free Foundation. She also spent a year studying the effect of different forms of enrichment on black and white ruffed lemurs.

Annabel writes:
Thank you for the invitation to join your team for an internship. I am so excited to come and join you all and feel I can learn so much whilst there. My aims of the internship are to become a responsible and capable animal caregiver, responding to the… needs of the primates and helping to enrich their lives. I aim to be efficient in the administration of medical care to the animals... I also wish to learn as much as I can about the primate species I will be looking after, as I have not worked with these before therefore it will be a perfect opportunity to familiarize myself with these species.


…Pacific Primate Sanctuary seems like such a lovely place where the animals really do come first and it will be so interesting to see the differences between PPS and the other animal institutions I have worked in. I hope that the knowledge that I gain at the end of the internship will enable me to give excellent care to all primates that I work with in the future.


I do not know how I will feel when my internship comes to an end. I may be a bit homesick or I may want to stay forever. All I do know is that once a place has become my home I will always be back.


…thank you so much for the opportunity to become part of your team.

Annabel is passionate about working with primates, and we are all excited to have her here at Pacific Primate Sanctuary. She has already begun her training, and has shown great enthusiasm and competence.




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