Spending the Summer at the Atlanta Zoo
I didn’t take it “lion” around
One hundred volunteer hours is all my son needed to fulfill his rookie hours for the Volunteen Program at the Atlanta Zoo.
He barely squeaked by for the age requirement. Seventeen is the cutoff, and he was just a few months shy of his 18th birthday. We were thrilled when he was selected, and as it turned out, he had to travel the furthest of any other volunteer to get there.
His acceptance put us in a quandary. He did not yet have his license. So that put me in the driver’s seat. It was a two hundred-mile round trip. We would be on the road by 8 a.m. to get him there for his shift at 10 a.m. A typical volunteer shift would be three hours. My son and I traveled this road two to three times a week. If he had a shift of three hours, so did I. All it cost me was gas money and an Atlanta Zoo Family Membership.
The Volunteen Program is an excellent opportunity for students. They received training in zoo volunteer procedures while learning about conservation and the wildlife environment. The teens were able to…
