How you can help...

VOLUNTEER

Volunteer with OHP in Sumatra

Get hands-on experience through our monthly volunteer research opportunities. Depending on the length of your availability, you have two volunteer options:
A. The monthly two-week long Volunteer program.
B. The Project Assistant program, where your stay is negotiable (from three weeks onwards).

Either way, both of OHP’s volunteer opportunities allow you to get involved, aid in orangutan research, ecology and conservation, and trek through pristine primary rainforest all while staying in Southeast Asia.

Volunteer from your home (country)

If you are unable to contribute to OHP as a volunteer at our Sumatra field base, there are plenty of other ways for you to get involved. Some of these include (but are not limited to):

Gathering support from your local community
Spreading the word about OHP and the amazing yet critical research we are undertaking to ensure the longevity of future generations of wild orangutans (OHP can provide you with promotion materials ranging from brochures to a PowerPoint presentation)
Setting up fundraising campaigns to support OHP’s work and help us create a new research and conservation site in Sumatra
Aiding in finding sponsors for OHP’s critical orangutan medical and conservation research
Providing assistance in grant writing
Donating an item(s) from OHP’s ‘Orang Helping Primates’ Wish List.

MAKE A FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTION

OHP is a non-profit research project. Any financial contribution, big or small, goes a long way here in Indonesia. Financial donations are used for all aspects of the project, from paying field assistant salaries and purchasing field equipment to paying for transportation of samples and lab analysis to helping fund OHP’s future, new research and conservation site. If you would like your donation to be allocated to a specific area, please let us know contact us at orangutanhealth@nusa.net.id or foitova@sci.muni.cz.

We will gladly allocate money as you desire.

OHP’S "ORANG HELPING PRIMATES" WISH LIST

The term “orang” is Indonesian for “people.” By donating an item from the OHP Wish List below, you will be contributing to the survival of the orangutan by helping OHP further its research goals, which will hopefully bring knowledge to basic science, public health and wildlife management and help to save not just the orangutan, but the flora and fauna of the rainforest that the orangutan calls home. The OHP Wish List consists of items that the project is in need of. Any contribution to the project will have a positive impact on OHP and be greatly appreciated. If you or anyone you know would like to donate anything from our Wish List, please contact us at orangutanhealth@nusa.net.id or foitova@sci.muni.cz.

"Orang Helping Primates" Wish List:

Timbang Lawan/Project Base & Bukit Lawang

Funding at Project Base, including but not limited to salary for Project Coordinator, Security, and Cook
Good quality compasses for plotting routes taken by orangutans through the forest and for conducting nest transect surveys
Scanner/printer for use in our office
Motorbikes for easier transportation for Project Coordinator and Project Assistants, as well as easier access to our planned new research site at Batu Rongring
Solar panels

Batu Rongring

Computers or laptops
Printers
Radio and rechargeable batteries and charger
Cell phones
Refrigerator
Solar panels, generator and related equipment sufficient to power the equipment listed above
Land Rover to allow access to the new research station, 20 km from Bukit Lawang and a five-hour drive from the nearest sealed road
Salaries for employees at the new research site

All Field Sites

Computers or laptops capable with Windows and Microsoft Word and Excel, primarily for data entry purposes (laptops with wireless internet capability, or Wi-Fi, are also desirable)
Salary for Field Assistants for one year (one assistant costs approximately US$2,400 per year (US$200 per month)
Hard wearing and lightweight clothing (new or used) for Field Assistants working in the forest following orangutans from dawn until dusk (Indonesians in general are small people – SMALL sizes only please!)
Rechargeable AA/AAA batteries and chargers
Good quality, hard wearing, bright torches and headlamps with long battery life for use by Field Assistants when moving through the forest early morning/evening
Pocket knives/multi-tools for use by Field Assistants taking bark/plant samples in the forest
Digital cameras capable of taking very high quality photos
Binoculars for Field Assistant and volunteers for observation of orangutans and their nests

General Project Needs

Financial support for the maintenance and expansion of our website and its related links/functions (one year costs around US$250)
GPS for charting positions of nests, survey transects and research sites

Laboratory Analysis in Czech Republic

Equipment for parasite analysis laboratory

Contact Information:
Email: orangutanhealth@nusa.net.id or foitova@sci.muni.cz
Phone: +6281362146476
+420602594811

If you would like to receive more information concerning OHP or how you may assist in OHP’s future endeavours, please do not hesitate to contact us. We are more than happy to answer questions from friends of orangutans. If you have ideas of other ways you may be able to get involved, please contact OHP and we will gladly to respond to your enquiries and propositions.

Many thanks,

Ivona and the OHP Team