Jungle Friends Primate
Sanctuary
Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary is a nonprofit
organization that rescues monkeys from around the U.S.
and provides a safe haven for them.
Website: http://www.junglefriends.org/
Contact: (386) 418-0808, cj@junglefriends.org
Who they are: Jungle Friends Primate
Sanctuary rescues monkeys who have been confiscated by
the authorities, retired from research programs, abused,
or who have been pets before.
What YOU can do to help: Volunteers are
needed in the following areas:
Outreach programs: creating
outreach programs, presenting outreach programs to
groups
Caregiver: preparing diets,
monitoring the well being of the monkeys, giving
medications, washing toys, doing laundry, cleaning
habitats, washing and cutting up produce
Housekeeping: Cleaning the
Guest House, offices, Caregivers Quarters, and
Volunteer Center
Secretarial: filing,
answering phones, writing letters, screening calls,
taking messages, proofreading data, making copies,
preparing mailings
Computer: word processing
and spreadsheet work, running reports
Painting: painting the
monkey houses and various other buildings
Habitat builders: carpentry
work, building fencing, etc.
Fundraising: planning
events, tabling events, organizing monkey art
exhibits, presentations, lectures, concerts, etc.,
writing press releases, creating and finding radio
and TV stations to air events and Public Service
Announcements, getting donations and sponsors for
monkeys, obtaining media involvement
Landscape: mowing and
weeding the grounds, mulching the paths and habitats,
planting trees and shrubs, planting and maintaining
the grounds and gardens
Electrician: Hooking up
pre-wired storage shed to junction box, hooking up
heat lamps, adding more breakers to boxes that are
already there
Driver: picking up supplies
at Alachua Feed; picking up produce at Winn Dixie on
Mon, Wed, and Sat in the morning
Plumbing: PVC pipe cutting
and gluing, repairing things
Tile Setter: installing
tile on the floors of the monkey houses and various
other buildings
If you would like to volunteer, please read and
fill out the Volunteer Packet:
http://www.junglefriends.org/junglefriends/Volunteer_
Packet.pdf
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