Bermudian university student Freya Lawrence plans to spend part of her summer babysitting and diapering which isn't all that unusual, except the rear end she'll be diapering will belong to a baboon.Miss Lawrence, 20, a University of Toronto psychology student, has been selected to volunteer with the Care Baboon Fostering programme in Phalaborwa, South Africa. She will spend the month of May working with the project run by South African, Rita Miljo.Ms Miljo started the charity in 1989 as a facility to assist all orphaned and injured wildlife brought to her by concerned members of the public. As her centre grew, she became known for her ability to nurture orphaned baboons. She developed a method to integrate the animals into new troops that could be successfully released back into the wild. Now in her 70s, she is still the active director of the centre, and involved hands-on with all new cases brought in.“When I was little I wanted to be a marine biologist,” said Miss Lawrence. “Then I worked at Dolphin Quest and I decided I didn't want to smell like fish for the rest of my life. I decided I wanted to study psychology while studying in the International Baccalaureate (IB) programme at the Bermuda High School for Girls (BHS). I am looking at child psychology, but I am not really sure which area I want to specialise in yet.”Miss Lawrence's mother, Michelle Lawrence, first heard about Care while watching the Animal Planet television programme ‘Growing up Baboon'. She sent her daughter the website to the programme.[naviga:iframe id="dit-video-embed" width="640" height="360" src="http://static.discoverymedia.com/videos/components/apl/fe3efb0c8662448dc6f422bb6b624f44d5718feb/snag-it-player.html?auto=no" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allowtransparency="true"][/naviga:iframe]“She thought it would be a thing I would be interested in doing,” said Miss Lawrence. “She sent me the website and I saw they had a volunteer section. I e-mailed them for more information and they sent me the application form. We filled it out and they gave me an acceptance the next day. It very quickly went from ‘something that might be a nice thing to do some day', to ‘I am going in May'.”The facility is located near Johannesburg, South Africa next to Kruger National Park. Ms Miljo runs Care out of her house. Many of the babies she helps are fostered by volunteers like Freya.“Some volunteers will be assigned an orphan,” said Miss Lawrence. “They will sleep with it and cling to it 24/7. When the baboons are old enough, Ms Miljo creates a peer group for them based on age. With the peer group, they will go into outdoor enclosures during the day. They come into the building at night to adjust slowly to being outside. They do this until they are ready for the wild. It is a gradual process.“When they are old enough and they are ready to survive in the wild they release them as a group in Kruger National Park. The baboons do pretty well when they are released. Care just recently released a troupe, but there is always a danger of people hurting them. That is why they get orphans in the first place; people shoot the mothers.”Miss Lawrence said she might do a psychology research papers around the project, but nothing is definite yet. She still has to confer with her professors at the University of Toronto.This will be her first time flying to such a distant destination on her own, but she gained a little experience volunteering oversees in 2008 when she went with BHS to do a service project in Thailand. She said that experience was a lot of hard work, and she didn't eat much.“I am not particularly fond of a lot of Thai food so I didn't eat as much as everyone else,” said Miss Lawrence. “I came back really skinny after all the work and not eating well. It was a great experience that allowed me to volunteer in South Africa. Since I went to Thailand with the school group I feel more comfortable going and jumping into something.”Miss Lawrence will be maintaining a blog while participating in the project at www.followfreya.tumblr.com.http://animal.discovery.com/videos/growing-up-baboon-baboon-care.htmlhttp://www.go-volunteerabroad.com/volunteer-in-south-africa/care-baboon-rehabilitation-program/4731