Volunteering at SANCCOB
Tasks
General
Tasks:
- Cleaning of buckets, cups and cutleries
- Cleaning of syringers for food or water
- Preparing formula (fish mash)
- Laundry
- in the evening: scrubbing and mopping the floor
- Cleaning of bathroom, toilets and kitchen
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Mats and Crates
Cleaning of material used in pens:
- mats and carpets
- crates
- dividers
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Pen 1, Pen 10 and Aviary
These cages are mostly inhabited by Kelp Gulls, Cormorants or Hartlaub's Gulls.
- Change the dirty mats, clean floor and pool
- Preparing food and feeding of the birds
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Chick Nursery
Here older chicks are placed. As a volunteer you haven't contact to them, you only have to assist a person there.
- Write down the weight of the chicks and tell the person which medication each chick needs
- After the chicks are put outside: take mats and dividers out and clean the floor
- To avoid infections of the chicks: the whole room has to be cleaned every day (floor, walls, ceiling)
- Preparing formula
- Late afternoon: Cleaning the outside pen after the chicks are put inside again
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Pen 2 und Pen 3
In this pens the penguins reside and volunteers have to do the following tasks:
- take care about the African Penguins: feeding, tubing, giving medication
- let the penguins swim in the pool
- cleaning of the pens
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Feeding of African Penguins:
Tubing:
Other tasks
There are also small tasks like sweeping leaves, dusting, raking in home pen, scrubbing passages etc.