The High Five Club

changing lives in wildlife areas of Africa, £5 at a time

  • Obviously a wondrously effective organisation. Small, but exquisite in every detail”

    Bill Oddie, OBE – Birdwatcher, natural history presenter and High Five Club Patron


  • I like the High Fivers. By thinking small they act big”

    Simon Barnes – Writer & High Five Club Patron

  • The High Five Club aims to change the world, £5 at a time. All you need do is join us”

    Will Travers, OBE – The Born Free Foundation & High Five Club Patron 


  • Passion is of course essential, but it must fuel practicality. The High Five Club is a splendid example of how it should be done”

    Bill Oddie, OBE – Birdwatcher, natural history presenter and High Five Club Patron 


  • It is truly amazing to see our collective funds going such a long way”

    Dr Cheryl Mvula – Co-founder of the High Five Club

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Gift of water

Clean water is essential for life, but one in eight people in the world do not have access to safe drinking water. To provide a safe, clean, accessible water source for an African villager costs under £5 – and this provides them with clean water for life. That’s less than the price of two cappuccinos or a cinema ticket. To make a one-off donation towards the construction of a well, donate securely online here. 

Many women and children living in rural areas of Africa spend hours each day walking great distances to collect water from muddy pools and streams.

Carrying the heavy water containers back home on their heads is an exhausting task. It often stops the children from going to school.

Diarrhoeal diseases caused by drinking unsafe water, such as cholera, typhoid and dysentery, are common across the developing world, killing one child every 20 seconds – that’s 4,000 children every single day.

In Zambia, the High Five Club has partnered with the local community in the wildlife-rich Luangwa Valley to construct wells right in the heart of the rural villages there.

Each well costs just £800 and serves over 200 people for life. The community hand-make the bricks to line the wells and the High Five Club provides the funds for well construction, cement, winding chains and buckets. It’s a joint effort – a hand up, not a hand out.

Do you want to be a part of letting the happiness flow in these villages?

Do the maths.

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