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Category: News
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.
0 Children’s Feeding & Conservation Programme, Malawi
We are thrilled to join hands for the 2nd consecutive year with the Brown Munthali Foundation in Malawi to provide food for 30 orphaned children in their care, along with conservation education.
To learn about this programme click here.
0 Community Conservation, Zambia
We are thrilled that over the last 12 months we have supported the anti-poaching work of the Community Scouts in Mnkhanya Community Resources Board in Zambia’s Luangwa Valley, along with uplifting their familes with emergency food supplies during the ‘hunger months’. Thanks to our long-term supporters at the Olsen Animal Trust for a grant to achieve this.
To read more click here.
0 Student Sponsorship, Zambia & Kenya
We are thrilled to have supported 3 gifted Zambians and one gifted Kenyan through secondary school and college during 2019, without which they would not have been able to take up the opportunities to advance their education. How life changing for such a modest sum! Read more here.
0 Human-Wildlife Conflict Mitigation, Zambia
We are supporting Conservation South Luangwa to expand their alternative crops programme in Zambia’s Luangwa Valley, with the aim of reducing conflict between elephants and people.
For more information read our project update here.
0 School Toilets, Cameroon
We bring you news of a new sanitation project in Cameroon, where we have partnered with a community self-help organisation called Rural Development & Care Cameroon (RUDECCAM) to bring toilets to a rural community school in Njinjou to reduce outbreaks of cholera which have killed children there.
H5C members have joined hands with our long-term education supporter Roffey Homes to deliver this intervention.
Read the project update here.
0 Women’s Enterprise Loan Scheme, Uganda
Access to small business start-up loans and training are extremely hard to come by, if not impossible, in rural areas of Africa. This means that pro-active, entrepreneurial members of local communities never get to realise their dream of running a small enterprise to lift their families out of poverty. They are trapped by a lack of opportunity to develop themselves.
In Uganda, we have partnered with Busoga Volunteers for Community Development to rollout a Revolving Loan Scheme for women widowed by HIV/AIDS, the majority with children to support, to help these women to set up self-help income generating enterprises so as to liberate them from economic bondage / dependency and poverty. For more info click here.
