As our Wildlife Warrior Program approaches the end of term, we wanted to share some highlights with you.
This term’s theme was The Importance of Forests, focusing on:

  1. Types of forests
  2. Various terms associated with forests like afforestation, reforestation and deforestation
  3. Causes and impacts of deforestation
  4. How to protect forests

Thanks to all the camp managers and guides who have generously supported this term’s theme by giving engaging and inspiring talks at our supported schools.

The newest highlight of the Wildlife Warrior Program is the Debate Competition, which has already taken place at Ura Gate Primary School near Elsa’s and Ololomei Primary School near Elephant Pepper Camp (EPC). Huge thanks go to Patrick & Sophie at EPC for taking the time to preside over the competition at Ololomei, and to Elsa’s guides who supported the competition at Ura Gate.

Next week, the Debate Competition moves to Esiteti Primary School near Tortilis and Engilae Primary School near Kitich. We are also holding a Poster Competition at Embiti Primary School, the newest entrant to the Wildlife Warrior Program. We are particularly delighted to be hosting a group from the Young Presidents’ Organization during the Poster Competition, so they can see the Wildlife Warrior Program in action. You will find photos of their visit and the competitions on our website and social media pages after next week.

Recently, as part of our partnership work with the Ngilae community near Kitich, we held a two-day Bee Keepers’ training event. During the event, which trained 12 members of the local community, Mr. Kenneth Kaburu of African Beekeeper Ltd. gave a lecture on beekeeping using the Langstroth beehive. This training was a key moment in the project, as it brought together a range of people from Ngilae, all of whom want to improve their livelihoods through beekeeping.

Over the past two months, the Land & Life Foundation team has been working hard to ensure that we have new fundraising materials for all the Elewana Collection properties in both Kenya and Tanzania.

We are pleased to announce that the majority of materials are now ready. We will be sending each property their materials within the next two weeks. Click here to view the fundraising materials for the various properties. Amongst the range, you will see two sets of bookmarks; one for the coastal properties and another for the bush camps.

We look forward to learning from Property Managers how these materials perform, before rolling them out further across more properties.

We have also acquired new Receipt, Cash in Transit (CIT) and Local Purchase Order (LPO) books. Most books have already been sent to the properties, and the remainder will follow within the next two weeks. These books will enable all of us to collect and manage donations effectively.

Many thanks to all Elewana Property Managers and other key colleagues for their valuable input during the development of our fundraising materials – we couldn’t have done it without you.

As always, if you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact our team.

Best wishes

Chania Frost

CEO

Land & Life Foundation