Obviously a wondrously effective organisation. Small, but exquisite in every detail”
Bill Oddie, OBE – Birdwatcher, natural history presenter and High Five Club Patron
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0 Community Conservation, Zambia
We are thrilled to have joined hands with the Olsen Animal Trust www.olsenanimaltrust.org over the past year to continue our support of community conservation in Zambia’s Luangwa Valley and help wild animals, and the marginalised local community that protects them, to flourish. Linking wildlife conservation and poverty reduction together is the beating heart of the High Five Club and we are so happy to have been able to continue this critical work in Zambia over the past 12 months.
0 Chitenga Community School, Zambia
From small acorns great oaks grow. And this is certainly the case for our ‘adopted’ community school in Zambia’s Luangwa Valley – Chitenga Community School. Starting out as a humble mud and thatch community school, we have over the past 2 years helped the community to build a 2-classroom block school and recently built 3 teacher’s house for volunteer teachers from the community, along with pupil toilets, and the provision of learning resources and furniture for the staff room.
0 Malimba Community School, Zambia
We have joined hands together to enable the conversion of a windowless storage room into a dedicated light-filled office for the Headmaster at this school in Zambia’s Luangwa Valley, where he can now concentrate on running the school without disturbance from pupils and teachers!
0 Bikes for Change, Zambia
We are thrilled to have supplied 11 bicycles to the Board Members and Patron of Mnkhanya Community Resources Board in Zambia’s Luangwa Valley to enable them to meet together to plan and implement community conservation and development activities.
0 Gifted Student Sponsorship, Zambia & Kenya
We are thrilled to have continued our support throughout 2020 of 3 gifted students in wildlife areas of Zambia and Kenya to further their education.
0 Desks for Maasai School, Kenya
We are pleased to have helped supply 100 x 2-seater desks to Olmoti Junior School in Kenya’s Amboseli National Park.
0 Water & Crocodiles, Malawi
Access to safe, clean water is the number one priority for all communities we work with in wildlife areas of Africa. It is life giving.
We are thrilled that we have been able to expand our water programme into Malawi – one of the poorest countries in Africa. And boy was this a challenge as you will read!!!
It is a real testimony to the tenacity and resilience of marginalised people in Africa that our water programme in Malawi has borne fruit. It was both inspiring and humbling in equal measures to walk this journey with them.
We hope you will enjoy reading the attached update and also watching the 2 videos here.
If you would like to join the High Five Club to support marginalised, inspiring communities we partner with including the Brown Munthali Foundation here in Malawi do get in touch.
To read this project update click here.
0 Clean Water, Zambia
We have expanded our provision of clean water into rural villages in Zambia’s Luangwa Valley. 4 new wells brings safe water to 2,000 more villagers and reduces conflict between people and wildlife at shared water sources. A win-win situation for both people and wildlife.
To read our water project update click here.
0 COVID-19 Community Response – Kenya, Zambia & Malawi
We have extended our support to 4 communities that we partner with in Kenya, Zambia & Malawi to help provide food parcels, face coverings, soap for hand washing and hand santizer during the pandemic.
We have joined hands with Bawa Hope in Kenya to provide food parcels for artisans in Kibera slum to feed their families during the pandemic, and food parcels to Maasai women in Ewangan Village in the Masai Mara via our partner there SEMADEP. Also with Mnkhanya Community Resources Board in Zambia to provide face coverings, soap and hand sanitizer for wildlife scouts and staff, and with The Brown Munthali Foundation in Malawi to provide soap, food and hand-washing basins for the orphaned children they care for.
Read about this intervention here.
0 Maasai Girls Rescue Centre, Kenya
We have joined hands with the Massai Evangelistic Association in Kenya to provide a safe place for Maasai girls escaping FGM and child marriage.
Read about this programme here.
