The purpose of this trip is to create awareness of the threat of extinction facing orangutans because of the destruction of their rainforest habitat and to raise funds to help orangutans. The trip hosts, Nigel and Sara, OVAID founders, are generously donating their time and expertise to help make this a most unique trip and a special experience for all our guests. Orangutan Odysseys tours have now raised over $1,000,000 since 2011 to help support the orangutan™s survival. Each participant of the trip will fundraise a minimum of £900 in donations specifically for OVAID. Your donation to this event WILL make a difference to help save orangutans' lives.

How will your fundraising be spent? All of the money raised will be completely utilised by OVAID to supply much-needed medicines and equipment for the BOSF & COP rescue centres and their remote release stations and to support the further training of Indonesian vets.

Nigel and Sara have advised that the following equipment supplies will be provided:-

For BOSF: A new DR Digital Dental X-ray system (£9,000)

Air-driven dental machine with a high-speed handpiece. (£4,000)

Maintaining equipment in the harsh tropical climate is difficult and expensive so OVAID has instigated an arrangement whereby the supplier will provide full backup for the x-ray machine in the event of any failure, both remotely (some solutions can be fixed remotely via computer) and if necessary in person. In addition, we will be providing vital medicines and many smaller items from the vet team™s wish list.

For BORA centre and COP: We will provide items from the veterinary team™s Wishlist for the new centre.

This tour is organised by Orangutan Odysseys and our mission is to help save the orangutans and their rainforests habitat.