Elephant Care Project
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About the project
Elephant Care Project
📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
We volunteer Nepal is volunteering organization , which organize volunteer in Nepal. WVN is non- profit, non-government, non-religious, non-political organization. We wish to enrich and improve the lives of both the local people and volunteers by providing new and memorable adventures and experiences. We provide different services like Placements in school, orphanages, Buddhist monasteries, Women groups, Hospitals and Health clinics, Health internship, working with disabled peoples, animals care, environmental awareness and more.We provide wider range of locations all over Nepal in general and mostly in places like Kathmandu, Pokhara, Chitwan, Nawalpur village.
Our mission is to create and develop a range of dynamic opportunities that would best benefit each volunteer as well as project addressing Nepalese communities. And to empower marginalized communities through enhanced education, health and income generation under women empowerment, children development, youth empowerment and public health programs with special focus on women and children by conducting training and research, developing basic infrastructure, mobilizing skilled local and international volunteer to promote equality, economic well being and basic human right.
WVN Team are completely committed to helping our community and we invite you to join in making a change for Nepal.Promote community development without destroying traditional ways of life. WVN provide education and training for community youths to encourage and create opportunity for self-employment, language lessons and cultural information for people who come to Nepal to study, conduct research and do voluntary work. To introduce volunteers to the richness of Nepali culture, tradition and ensure a safe and memorable stay in a supportive environment. We Volunteer Nepal you know for a fact that your money is going towards helping the community.
Our program run all the year round so we are extremely flexible for your plans.
💼 What the programme involves
The elephant care project provides refuge to domesticated elephants that have been used in the logging and tourism industries in Nepal. This project held near by Chitwan national park. In this project our volunteer do volunteering in feeding food,washing, caring and can take more knowledge about elephant, their life style. They enjoying time with elephants, mahouts and local community.
Your duty as skilled volunteer:
If you are veterinary student or researcher you can make research on Elephants regarding their behavior, or on Elephant tuberculosis a chronic disease that has affected much the captive elephants in Nepal. For such research programs the permission of Nepal government is essential. If your requirements meet, we will help you in it.
Your duty as general elephant care volunteer:
The Elephant and Community Volunteering Project is dedicated towards taking care of the huge friendly animals, along with the welfare of the surrounding community people in shauraha.Volunteers under this program will engage themselves in cleaning the sheds, They also look after their cleanness, harvesting, collecting food for elephant. Volunteers will work at an elephant welfare project where these lovely animals are kept and treated for any ailments. They are also been fed and taken care of by the inmates and mahouts, elephant breeding center.
Elephant Dung Paper:
Paper is made from elephant dung which is eco friendly work. As a volunteer you can take part few hours a day in this project to make paper. The paper made can be distributed to poor students who live nearby for school stationary purpose.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Accommodation is provided to the volunteers in friendly family home stay where you feel as a home. Room are neat and clean with friendly peace environment. You have to stay in sharing basis also. We advise you to bring sleeping bag and mosquito net with you. Or you can always buy here which is 2-3 times cheaper than back home.
For less than 2 months volunteers will be staying in single rooms
For more than 2 months they will stay in a host family
🍲 Food
- Breakfast occurs at 7:00 am and consists of a cup of tea and biscuits.
- Lunch is served at 11:30 am and usually Nepalese food daal/bhat full power 24hrs ( rice, lentils and vegetable)
- Dinner is at around 7:00 pm and is once more daal/bhat.
The food is local with pure hygienic and very delicious ! You will love Nepali food taste !!
📍 About the location
The project takes place in Sauraha is 166 km. south west from Kathmandu. It is situated at an altitude of 150m (492 feet) form the sea level. Its shape is rectangular and speared with east west direction. It is in close proximity with the Chitwan National Park, Tandi and Chitrasari being at a distance of 6 and 3 km.
🎒 Leisure activities
Near elephants care projects here is place to visit local tharu cultural people, their you can see famous stick dance program. This project is near by Chitwan National Park where you can see wild animals by elephant back safari like sloth bear, bison, leopard and the elusive tiger. The common species such as deer, rhinoceros and wild boar are in abundance. A serene float down Rapti river in dugout canoe offer the chance to view many of the more than 450 species of exotic birds including Giant Hornbill, Lesser Florican and Paradise flycatcher.
From a project area 90km far there is beautiful city called Pokhara, where you can see the snow mountains, fewa lake
also you can enjoying hiking in Annapurna Himalayan regions, trek will done as per your time.
⚠️ Requirements
There is no special requirement for this project except a strong interest for animal caring.
Because of extra charges like air conditioning, the participation fees will be 590 euros during summer time (from march to august) but cheaper, 450 euros, during winter (From september to february)
🤝 Meeting point
Volunteers will be picked-up at Kathmandu airport to join the project site.
ℹ️ Additional information
The Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) is the largest of all mammals in Nepal. Elephants have an excellent memory and a long lifespan - similar to that of humans. Elephants are very sociable. They live in groups of related animals, led by a mature female. Members of the same group communicate with each other using sound, scent and touch.
Elephants are capable of producing infrasonic sounds (low-pitched sounds that fall below the hearing range of humans) that are especially useful for communicating over long distances, since the lower-pitched the sound is, the further the sound waves can travel. The trunk, which is an elongated nose with nostrils situated at the very end, is a delicate tool. It can be used for a wide array of tasks, from moving heavy tree trunks to picking up objects as small as a peanut. The Asian elephant has a single "finger" on the upper lip of the trunk.
Elephants are domesticated creatures and follow the instructions the mahout gives. Elephants are symbol of good luck and it’s amazing opportunity to be with this mighty creature. During volunteering period you will have great opportunity to have behavioral study of Asian Elephants.The temperature of Terai region where elephants live is divided into a cool (October to mid February) and a hot period (midFebruary to June). Temperatures range from 10◦C in January to 41◦C in May. In chitwan there is an elephant breeding facility at the Chitwan National Park where baby elephants and their mother live. At present, there are altogether 208 captive elephants in Nepal. The majorities of private elephants are in and around Chitwan National Park, and are mainly used for tourism purposes. Government elephants are mainly used for patrolling and research purposes whereas private elephants are mostly used for forest excursions and for entertaining tourists in buffer zones of parks and reserves. Elephant eat around 250 kilograms food each day and drink about 200 liter water. And an elephant have to keep on eating most of the time because of its poor digestive mechanism. An elephant loves swimming and it has to be taken for bath each day.
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EC
01/06/2018 → 01/12/2019
ℹ️ Key information
Age required
18–99 years old
Solidarity donation
590.00 EUR
French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).
📍 Location
Ratnanagar 44200, Nepal
Nepal
🌍 Location info
Local currency
Nepal Rupee (NPR / रूपैयाँ)
Exchange rate
1 NPR = 0.005958 EUR
Rate as of 31/05/2026
Timezone
Nepal Time
Local time: 21:14 (12/11/2026)
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