A PRIMARY teacher is heading off to far-flung Borneo to care for the king of the swingers as a jungle volunteer.

But there'll be no monkeying around for Emily Brown, who will be working six days a week for two months looking after sick and orphaned orang-utans.

Her tasks will include cleaning babies and dishing up dinner for adolescents on jungle feeding platforms.

The 29-year-old from Torrisholme will join nine other volunteers at the rainforest-based Sepilok Rehabilitation Centre for orang-utans in northern Borneo.

The centre rehabilitates injured or orphaned animals until they can survive alone in the jungle.

Emily, a reception class teacher at Morecambe Bay Primary School, swings into action in July. But first she needs to raise £4,000 for the placement and flight.

The former Ripley St Thomas student, who qualified as a teacher at Martin's College in Lancaster, hopes businesses and organisations will sponsor the project.

"I am really excited, and can't wait for the whole experience," says Emily, who stumbled across a website about volunteering at the centre last summer.

"I am not married, haven't got any children and I just feel it is a good time in my life to be able to go and do this sort of thing," she says.

To support Emily's Borneo conservation trip, call Morecambe Bay Primary School on 01524-401002.