Obviously a wondrously effective organisation. Small, but exquisite in every detail”
Bill Oddie, OBE – Birdwatcher, natural history presenter and High Five Club Patron
Category: News
0 Football & Netball, Zambia
The High Five Club has continued to fund and organise the very popular High Five Club Conservation Football Tournament in Zambia’s Luangwa Valley, with teams from all 6 Chiefdoms in the Lupande Game Management Area bordering South Luangwa National Park taking part. This is the 3rd football tournament we have run in this area and we were thrilled this time to extend our ‘conservation through sport reach’ to girls and young women with the launch of the High Five Club Conservation Netball Tournament.
Sport is such an incredibly positive and effective medium to educate and raise awareness with the rural youth of Africa about issues surrounding wildlife conservation, HIV prevention and other development issues.
To read more click here.
0 Community Conservation, Zambia
High Five Club is thrilled to have once again facilitated a grant during 2017/18 from OAT to fund the development and upliftment of our partner in Zambia, Mnkhanya Community Resource Board (MCRB).
As a result of this support, in the 9 months from January to September 2017 the community scouts have conducted 2,720 man patrols, decommissioned and collected 300 wire snares, recovered 4 muzzle loading guns and apprehended 6 poachers. The scouts and their families are no longer hungry and are motivated to do their vital anti-poaching work as they feel that someone values them and appreciates the sacrifices they make in carrying out the dangerous work of protecting wildlife each day.
0 Iganga WaSH Project, Uganda
In Uganda we have partnered with an inspiring community-based NGO, Busoga Volunteers for Community Development, to bring safe, clean drinking water to over 3,000 villagers living close to wildlife. See the community’s personal message to you here.
To read more click here Wells Uganda 2016 and 2017.
0 Gifted Pupil Sponsorship, Zambia
In Zambia we have continued our support in 2017 of a very gifted future conservationist to allow her to complete her secondary education, along with helping a talented local Zambian artist realise his dream to study art and link this into wildlife conservation.
To read more click here School Pupil Sponsorship 2017.
0 Children’s Home, Mozambique
We are pleased to have had the opportunity to join hands with a well-respected grass-roots development organisation in Mozambique to help fund the construction of a new children’s home in Niassa in the North of the country. Pastos Verdes (Green Pastures).
To read about our support click here.
1 School Feeding Programmes
We are pleased to be continuing our School Breakfast Clubs in both Kenya and Zambia again this year. With the support of some of our friends and supporters we are providing a healthy breakfast each school day for over 800 children in the Maasai Mara and the Luangwa Valley. This all equates to improved educational performance and a reduction in poaching at the same time!!
Enjoy reading the project update here Zambia and Kenya Breakfast Clubs 2017.
0 Respect Girls Campaign, Zambia
We have joined hands with Chipembele Wildlife Education Trust in Zambia to produce and distribute posters that promote respect for girls in the Luangwa Valley.
To find out more click here.
0 Sekanani Maasai IT Centre, Kenya
0 Equiping Bush School Dormitories, Zambia
We are happy to have joined hands with Zambia Primate Project to provide 20 bunk beds so that 40 children at Chunga Primary School in Kafue National Park in Zambia can get a comfortable night’s sleep, rather than sleeping on the floor as before.
Enjoy reading the project update here.
0 Clean Water Provision, Zambia
We are thrilled to bring you news of the expansion of our water wells initiative in rural Zambia.High Five Club members have joined hands with the Rotary Club of Canterbury Sunrise, Whitstable Rotary Club and the Hope Trust to bring safe, clean water to a further 3,000 rural villagers in Zambia’s wildlife-rich Luangwa Valley.
At just £1.06 per person for the provision of clean water for life, what a difference this initiative is making! For details click here.
