By RUPA MAJUMDAR | PROGRAM MANAGER
First Phase of Uttarayan Save the Bird Campaign-2019
Staff and Volunteer Training:
Training is concerned with increasing the knowledge and skills of employees and volunteers for doing all kinds of jobs related to bird injuries as well as back-office work during pre-Uttarayan (kite-festival ), Uttarayan as well as post- Uttarayan.
We intend to increase the skills of our new-staff as well as new volunteers.
We also include our old working staff and volunteers as mentors while training the new ones that enhances their own knowledge and is beneficial to the newcomers.
From this month of November till December 2018, we have planned 7-days training in phases to cover up the entire staff as well as registered volunteers to make our campaign a successful program whereby thousands of birds could be treated efficiently and relocated once they recover completely.
The topics for the training are: (i) Bird handling (Theory and Practical) (ii) Bird Transport and Cage handling(Theory and Practical) (iii) Handling lessons specific to different species of birds
(iv) First-Aid for Birds.
We have a full-time working staff of 65 including 9 expert Veterinarians to take care of the organisation’s hospital work, all departments, including Animal , Bird , Adoption centre as well as administration work.
STAFF-TRAINING :
For the staff , we have planned out 3-days in-house training, that included: Administration and Management, Bird – Handling and First- aid, Special techniques and skills to cope-up with Avian Emergency cases.
Our Trainers are: Doctors, Admin In charges as well as Curators.
VOLUNTEER-TRAINING:
Our Trainers are: Doctors, Admin In charges as well as Curators. Also experienced staff and volunteers.
Volunteers are an integral part of our organization.They provide vital support for both the frontline work and the back office tasks .
Our main frontline work- Bird-rescue, bird-handling, bird-transport , cage-set-up, first-aid, assisting vets in surgeries, ICU- and OPD work, Medicine stock maintenance, etc.
We have invited volunteers from world over including local, national as well as International past as well as new volunteers, We already have confirmed registrations from more than 100 volunteers(both vets and non-vets).
Some of the procedures of volunteering are- Online registration , personal interaction and Special form for Uttarayan being filled up after interview.
Almost 3000 and more injured birds are brought into our hospital within the month of January itself. Bird cases keep coming even in December and February.
A lot of preparation and arrangements goes on for tackling such a large-scale Avian emergency.
To complete our mission of treating such a large number of injured birds and after recovery release them in their habitat needs your help in the form of donations that you have been giving us constantly.
Keep up with your great and noble work and support us in our mission of running our campaign successfully by donating generously.
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