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In Zambia's South Luangwa we are working with Bush Camps to improve the Chilongozi school which has only one teacher for 200 pupils and a run down building. A skilled carpenter and builder are now building desks, fixing the roof and they are working on training more teachers. At another primary school in the same area safari guides give lessons on wildlife and take children into the national park to educate about conservation. Many children are orphans and some are being funded to attend school.
In the Okavango Delta, an Okavango Community Trust has been set up to help poor villages near safari areas with funds to start small businesses which include growing vegetables which are purchased for use in safari lodge kitchens. Significant numbers of people from these communities are being trained and employed in safari camps.
Hwange is Zimbabwe's largest national park with over 20,000 elephant. We are working with our partners to drill and maintain vital bore holes for waterholes in the critical dry season and working with local communities to deter poaching and encourage wildlife management. This is helping to preserve this vital national park. Because all funds are used by our partners directly with the local communities, 100% of any amounts given get through to where it is needed.
Send a Cow supports poor farmers in Africa by offering them direct and practical help. By providing livestock, seeds, farming equipment and fruit tree saplings lives are changed and opportunities to become self reliant are afforded. For each of these gifts the farmer receives appropriate training in the best farming practices and livestock care.
Send a Cow purchases all of its livestock in Africa and works in 10 of it's poorest countries - Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. Send a cow focuses on the poorest people in these communities: women, disabled people and orphan households. Each farmer in receipt of livestock guarantees to pass its first female offspring to another poor family, who will do the same in their turn, creating an ever increasing circle of benefit.
One such farmer is Ana Grace from Uganda. Before receiving her cow Ana used to be sick with worry. "I couldn't take the children to school, and my land was just dust." Now she has transformed her land using the composted manure from her cow, and all her children are in school - strong and healthy from eating vegetables and drinking milk.
Ana is now managing her land successfully and, with the birth of her cow's first calf, she is now able to look at long-term plans for increasing her land's income. Although she still needs a little support from Send a Cow she is able to provide support to her neighbours by sharing her knowledge (and manure!) so that they too can start to transform their land and their lives. Ana's story is just one example of the positive outcome of Send a Cow's assistance in Africa.
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