For a $75 contribution, you will receive a foster parent kit which includes a photograph of your adoptee, a certificate, an orangutan activity booklet, stickers, a current issue of Pongo Quest, and other items. You will also receive newsletters which include information on the work that OFI is doing in Borneo.
Name: Lear
Sex: male
Arrival date: 9th November, 2005
On arrival: 2.8 kg
Age on arrival: 4 months
Previous history: handed in by local villagers
Care centre: Pangkalan Bun, Borneo
Lear arrived at the care centre on the 9th of November 2005. He was a tiny infant, only 2.8kg and only approximately 4 months of age. He was found by local villagers who lived many hours from the care centre. They found Lear at the bottom of a tree - he’d probably had fallen from his mother’s “night nest”. He must have been found very soon after his birth as his eyes were still shut and he had no teeth at all. He was handed over to the care centre a few months later by the villagers Now Lear is big and healthy, weighing in at nearly 5.5kg. Lear loves spending his days in the forest. Although being so young he never ventures far from his carers and still wobbles about, just like all babies learning to climb, play and walk on all fours. Lear is a very handsome little boy, with a huge round stomach, a trait of most infant orangutans.++++
The care of each infant costs approximately $2,000 a year and OFI's Care Center receives dozens of new babies every year. Your $75 covers the cost of feeding Lear for one month. In the beginning, each infant must be cared for 24 hours a day. Veterinarians and nurses conduct check-ups and attend to urgent medical problems. Medicines, vitamins, and quality food are needed. OFI's Orangutan Foster Parent Program helps ensure that funds are available for all this critically needed care. You may choose to support a specific orphaned infant or juvenile; however, because of how our program is organized, all the youngsters in our care benefit from your support. No orangutan in need is ever turned away.
(If this item is a gift, please use the separate billing address and message box on the order form to give us as much information as possible)
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