📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
MONA is a Rescue and Rehabilitation center near Girona surrounded by nature that serves as a home for rescued primates and as a place to develop educational and training activities. Caring for and understanding leads us to understand and respect wild animals in general.
These primates have been circus performers, television performers, advertising models, or even pets. An invisible mistreatment in our society. . MONA offers them a new life option, they will live in facilities adapted to their needs, forming social groups and recovering as much as possible from their physical, psychological and emotional consequences. Their stories will serve to explain how they really are and emphasize the indiscriminate treatment of human towards the planet. It is about becoming aware of our actions that threaten the survival of flora-fauna and the disappearance of habitats.
Our main activities are:
Rescue / Rehabilitation: We rescue abused primates. We rehabilitate them physically and mentally and offer them a second life in a group.
Research / Courses: We are committed to ethological training and research, to monitor and improve the well-being of primates.
Education /: We explain our work to the public in order to raise awareness and reduce the risks of these threatened species.
The target groups are:
1) Starting with our volunteers participants who carry out their activity at MONA
2) Schools
3) Families that visit us.
4) Students seeking training and specialization in Primatology.
💼 What the programme involves
1- Support Education Department : awareness and sensitization of all our visitors is part of one of the pillars of MONA. The volunteer must know the philosophy, values and educational objectives of the Organization. Participants will manage to transmit all this trough educational guided visits in order to achieve an impact society. The volunteer can help in other administrative tasks of the department.
2- Support in the Research department: the participant will learn to collect data on the behavior of our groups of primates. At the same time, it can be part of a study that is being carried out, as well as an assistant or reinforcement in administrative tasks of the department.
3- Maintenance tasks: gardening, painting, construction...etc.
4- Support in the Communication department: the volunteer will help with administrative tasks, dissemination in networks and other communication tasks.
🏠 Accommodation on site
The Project is looking for 2 Spanish participants. Therefore, travel expenses must be national.
Pocket money 180 euros per month.
The participant receives 190 euros per month for food expenses and local transportation (train)
MONA provides accommodation in 2 rented flats in Girona city. Volunteers will have individual rooms.
🎒 Leisure activities
* Work outdoors in a Environmental project
* Enrich themselves on a personal level,
* Develop communication skills
* Enhance personal capabilities
* Establish socio-cultural links between the different volunteers and the community, establishing an active role in the society
* Understand and empathize with societies.
* Get professional skills on Primatology field.
* Spread the benefits of the European Solidarity Corps
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profile: * We are looking for 2 participants
*Spanish nationality and residence
*Native Spanish, knowledge of English and/or French
*At least one of the two participants must speak Catalan
*Participant would like to gain skills on communication
*Must like animals, people and children
*Like to contribute on an environmental project
Deadline: Application deadline: 15/02/2023
ℹ️ Additional information
Participants are entitled to receive a Youthpass certificate from the organiser, for recognition of their competence development during the activity. Read more about Youthpass:https://www.youthpass.eu/en/
This organisation holds a European Solidarity Corps Quality Label. The Quality Label certifies that the organisation is able to run projects in compliance with the principles and objectives of the European Solidarity Corps.