Obviously a wondrously effective organisation. Small, but exquisite in every detail”
Bill Oddie, OBE – Birdwatcher, natural history presenter and High Five Club Patron
changing lives in wildlife areas of Africa, £5 at a time
It is with great excitement that we bring you the news of the expansion of our school feeding programme into our long-term partner school Mara Riante in Kenya’s Masai Mara. This simple intervention is making successful in-roads into tackling one of the root causes of both poverty and poaching – lack of access to education.
As a result of this Breakfast Club enrollment numbers have increased with more Maasai parents putting their children into school. Attendance levels have also soared with children able to participate in lessons rather than search for the day’s food.
For more information read here.
We have helped to fund a new sheep rearing project in rural Gambia in partnership with local self-help group Future Farmers of the Gambia. Each beneficiary of a breeding ewe passes on the first born female to another community member – so the cycle of community benefit continues. To read about this small project, set to make a big impact read here.