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 Book Offer – Gold Cufflinks
Book Bonus!
Here is a chance to enjoy a good read and support the High Five Club’s work in Zambia at the same time!
One of our long-time supporters, Derrick Swain, has written an autobiographical book “Gold Cufflinks” about his experiences living and working in both Zambia and St Lucia from the end of the 1960s as the winds of change blew through Africa and the Caribbean after the fall of the British Empire.
Derrick shares his fascinating account of how as a young man he chose to leave the UK and work alongside Zambian colleagues to create a modern commercial enterprise in the Copperbelt during the early years of Kenneth Kaunda’s presidency. The reader also journeys with Derrick to St Lucia where he took up his second overseas posting.
Full of historical interest and anecdotes, this book about the life of an expat in the post-colonial era is both serious and light-hearted and packed with surprises, hope, love and friendship. It is also a book that will resonate with anyone who has lived in the tropics, triggering both joyful and painful memories. Joy at the fond recall of moments, people and places; pain at leaving them all behind.
Derrick will sign each copy and is kindly donating £5 from the sale of every book sold to High Five Club supporters and their friends. All funds raised we will put towards our school build programme in Zambia’s Luangwa Valley.
This “Gold Cufflinks” fundraising offer is only available online at www.talesofexpat.co.uk and retails for £12.99 plus p&p.
So order the book, have a great read and help fund a rural school build in Zambia!
0 Education for the Poorest, Zambia
So excited to bring you news of the recent completion of our second community school build in Zambia’s Luangwa Valley, Chinjobvu Community School.
It is just so wonderful to witness the total transformation of the educational prospects of these 185 children who live in a really remote part of Zambia alongside wildlife. Education really is the key that breaks the cycle of poverty in such communities.
We would like to thank our friends at St Peter and St Paul’s Church in Shorne, Kent for joining with High Five Club members to help fund this build.
For the full project update download below.
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.
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