Dollars for DeeDee

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A bull hook. A heavy metal chair. Painful tusk removal. A 14+ hour workday parading tourists around. With little time to eat, baking hot conditions, and exhausting hours, this is life 365 days a year for most elephants in South East Asia.
With your help, it ends now.
Elephants are forced to live like this because of the tourism industry’s demand for cheap rides and photo ops. The good news is that by changing the demand we can end the abuse. Across the river from The Chai Lai Orchid, 11 elephants live and work. Four of those elephants, including DeeDee, are babies. While they are too small for chair rides now, they will soon grow up and join their friends in their backbreaking toil. It doesn’t have to be this way though. With your help, we can change the tide of tourism in Thailand.
Lao Tzu says, “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”
It has always been our dream to rescue DeeDee and her friends. While we have struggled to watch the elephants we love be overworked and paraded around wearing chairs (learn more here about how chairs hurt elephants), we knew that by continuing to bathe them, love them and buy them time off, we could set an example of humane treatment for elephants.
With your help, we have the opportunity to changes the lives of these elephants forever. Get involved at