ELMIRA'S WILDLIFE SANCTUARY

Become part of Elmira's family of helping hands. The animals need you. We need you. Choose whatever time commitment you're comfortable with and your life allows. We need you on a daily basis (wow, you're a trooper!), once a week, once a month, even once a year! It is a very enriching, unique volunteer opportunity. Some of the help needed includes working with animals, keeping up the grounds, helping for a few hours at fundraisers, handing out flyers... whatever your strong suit is, show it off here! We need your talent, expertise, ambition, and a few hours of your time.

• If working with the animals appeals to you, they need to be fed and cared for on a daily basis. Be aware this involves lifting, contact with raw meat and cleaning animal houses. Other tasks needed to be done daily are sort of 'just like home'... taking out the trash, cleaning up the kitchen, and small odd jobs.

• Again, 'just like home'- lawn mowing, general grounds and property maintenance.

• If an occasional helping hand is what you're offering, sign up! We need extra help at our fundraisers, a few times a year. Anything from assisting in event planning to serving soft drinks, posting notices, and parking cars for the event.

• We're still rebuilding and need a variety of things done before we can officially open our doors. Some of these things include painting cages, building fences, constructing cement block den boxes, and creating a large fenced play area with a pond for the big cats. If you have these skills, we would love to see you on one of our “work days.” We’ll feed you!

If you've read this far, you have an obvious interest in the welfare of the animals that call Elmira's Sanctuary home. Come join us and feel the inspiration of lending your hand to care for a lion, tiger, bear and all the other animals in need of your caring. Thank you.