Volunteer program schedule and prices

The Bubbles marine turtle volunteer conservation program starts on alternate Mondays every month - March through to October - and volunteers depart on the Sunday you can volunteer for 1 week or 5 months it is upto you.

For 2010 the start dates are as follows

April          5th and 19th
May           3rd, 17th and 31st
June           14th and 28th
July            12th and 26th (Full)
August        9th and 23rd
September  6th and 20th
October      4th (1 week program only)

The volunteer program is flexible depending on activities in the resort at the time or the weather.  However we do try to keep to the schedule as below.

You can join our project for a minimum of 1 week, up to as many weeks as you want. The project revolves around a two week schedule with volunteers staying on longer than two weeks having more responsibility and sharing your new found knowledge with the new volunteers and guests. The volunteer program starts on a Monday and in the first few days focuses on settling you down and teaching you about turtles and the forest then you get stuck into the Turtles need Trees Club (TnT club). On the Thursday afternoon we all go to the village to run the TnT Club at the local primary school and to stay in the village overnight, giving you an insight into the life of a villager in Perhentian – you may think differently about turtle egg poaching afterwards.

After that you start to settle into the normal routine and will be introduced to an Ecoteer initiative called Rubbish Reused, collect reef data and prepare to give daily presentations to the guests in your second week. Volunteers leave on the Sunday and the ones staying have a deserved day off.

In the second week the focus will be on you educating the guests by giving lunchtime daily talks about turtles, sharks, reefs or the forests and an evening environmental welcome talk to the new guests. Volunteers can also give guests coral watch, green fins survey training and water confidence lessons and take them on snorkel tours (after the inhouse rescue course has been completed) around the island or on jungle treks in the forest. The second week also includes a forest survey on either vegetation, small mammals, insects or reptiles/birds.

Volunteers staying for more than two weeks are expected to teach the new volunteers by giving them the talks about turtles, sharks, reefs and the forest. This is a great chance for volunteers to really learn as giving presentations is the best way to learn and is a big part of conservation – education.

The daily routine is as follows:-

09:00                           Morning Chores - Volunteers not on turtle watch the night
                                    before

·         Rake and tidy the resort

·         Beach clean

Snorkel tour – if requested by tourists

09:30                           Free time for everyone – leisure diving if qualified

12:00                           Malay language session

12:30                           Lunch

13:30                           Daily awareness talk – turtles, sharks, reef or forest

14:00                           see afternoon scheduled activity
14:30                           Water confidence, Coral watch or Green Fins survey – if
                                    requested by tourists
16:30                           Jungle trek – if requested by tourists

                                    Evening chores – everyone

·         River discharge

·         Beach clean

·         Water vegetable garden

·         Recycling

·         Garbage enzyme

17:30                           Volleyball

19:30                           Dinner

20:00 -03:00                Turtle Watch – on rota

20:30                           Resort Briefing for new guests

21:00                           See scheduled evening activity

03:00 – 08:00  Poacher watch – on rota

Afternoon and evening scheduled tasks

Week 1

•Turtles need Trees Club with village stay

•Coral watch training and survey

•Green Fins training and survey

Week 2

•Rubbish reused

•Forest survey

•Give awareness talks to tourists

•Run an awareness program for a group of tourists or small group projects

Same routine but in the afternoon you will by leading snorkle tours, jungle treks, water confidence sessions for poor swimmers and assisting with new volunteers.  Volunteers staying for more than two weeks are asked to help prepare and give evening talks to the tourists.  These volunteers help the onsite facilitator with the new volunteers acting as mentors.

Costs 2010

  Duration               Malaysian      Foreign
  1 week                 RM950         RM1400
  2 weeks                RM1700       RM2600
  Additional weeks  RM800          RM1000

 

Price includes

• twin sharing accommodation with ensuite bathroom
• three meals per day
• return boat transfer from Kuala Besut
• marine park fees
• fortnightly overnight stay in village
• TnT club 
• snorkel gear
• onsite facilitator
• onsite training and suitable equipment
• 10% donation to the Perhentian Village Fund (foreign volunteers only)

Not included

• travel to Kuala Besut
• insurance
• scuba diving
• snacks

 

If you would like to join as a marine turtle conservation volunteer the please go to our how to apply section or email us on info@bubblesdc.com with any inqueries.

If you would like to talk to past volunteers then please join our facebook group  and read our  volunteer blog.

 

To find out more about volunteering go to one of the following pages

Brochures

Get your questions answered

Apply for a place on the turtle volunteer project

Hear from the volunteers themselves

 

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