volunteering in the Central African Republic
After too much rushing around from country to country, and a quick visit to my Mum in Kenya, it was time for a completely different experience - a stint as a volunteer at an ecolodge deep in the rainforest of Central Africa. I'd been here before (posted about it in July and August 2012) which is how I knew the owner and how I saw that they sometmes take volunteers, but spending a week somewhere as a tourist is very different from living there for six months as a volunteer. To be honest I had very little clue as to what I would be expected to do (and still haven't as I write this ten days after my arrival...). The original requests for volunteers some years back were related to care of rescued pangolins, and this was what I was keen to do, but when I had a call with the owner prior to signing up, he dismissed my mention of pangolins, saying they now had a volunteer vet to do that. He asked what I'd done for work, and when I started to summarise my career path he interru...