Inspiring Youth to Care for Nature and Wildlife

A lot has changed in the past few months since the start of the pandemic and the lockdown in South Africa! However, we stand strong and we cannot wait to be able to run our project as usual hopefully soon!

The crisis continue to hit the country and we are still under lockdown lever 3. We are not sure when international travel will be allowed again and schools are also still partially closed.

Therefore, with no international volunteers or children, we are not delivering our usual onsite Environmental Education project for now. We miss having the camp full of children and laughters!

We still want to tell the communities of the importance of DAKTARI’s mission, which is to educate and inspire children to value and protect their environment.

Therefore, we used this quiet time to strengthen our relationship with the surrounding villages. We invited the chiefs of 6 villages, who are each in charge of a village, to come for half a day and visit DAKTARI.  

We gave them a tour of the camp and the animals, and realised that some of them had never seen an ostrich or a meerkat before! We also reinforced the importance of teaching the children about the environment through a presentation of our teaching program, allowing them to better understand our mission.

The chiefs are very respected and the community listens to them, so having their full support is crucial to the success of our mission. They can pass the message to their people about the importance of protecting the wildlife and taking care of the environment. 

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