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Through the camps that we select in Botswana we support a programme called Children in the Wilderness. The programme focuses on children who have suffered poor childhoods disrupted by either life threatening conditions or poverty. Implementing environmental awareness, recreation and fun the programme exposes children to new ways of thinking, increases their self esteem that in turn strengthens their ability to cope with life’s challenges, in addition to educating them with life skills along the way. The programme enriches not only the children’s outlook enabling them to actualize their potential yet it also breeds enthusiasm through the communities to which they belong.
In 1980’s Jo Pope started the Kawaza School Fund in an effort to improve the conditions at one of the local schools, Kawaza Basic School, Zambia. Since then there have been significant improvements made and the Kawaza School Fund now works with 3 schools in the Nsefu area with a 4th school starting up in 2008. The fund assists schools by building classrooms and teachers housing, with the end result being a fully functional school system within the Nsefu area. In addition to these building projects, the fund also sponsors students on to secondary school and subsidizes salaries for teachers to reduce the student to teacher ratio.
For each of our clients that we send to Africa we make a donation of £10 to the charity Send a Cow. Send a Cow offers practical support to farmers, landowners and families in Africa that are struggling for survival. The charity provides livestock, seeds, farming equipment, and fruit tree saplings that enable receiving individuals to empower themselves and provide for their families a sustainable future. Send a Cow provides also the appropriate training to enable the maximum gain for each of these gifts.
The charity focuses its work on the poorest communities in the countries of Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. The benefit once received becomes exponential in that the individual in receipt of the cow or goat promises to pass the first female offspring to another poor family, who will then do the same in return.
This method of training and empowerment of individuals pervades through the community creating an ever richer environment for the most impoverished areas.