A Retired Cheetah Teaches Poor South African Youth

Summary

Providing a home for a retired cheetah at Daktari’s Bush School and Wildlife Orphanage and then using this awe inspiring animal as an ambassador for conservation to our local underprivileged youth. progress report read updates from the field

How Donors Like You Helped

Thanks to donors like you, a total of £288 was raised for this project.

Received £288 from 14 donations from people around the world like:

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Weekly 8 underprivileged children attend Daktari Bush School where experiential learning is aimed at inspiring them to take action for conservation. Biology and Ecology come to life during bush walks and in our wildlife orphanage Cheetahs are impressive and non aggressive making them ideal for education. This 10 year old Cheetah is no longer useful for breeding, is too old to be released and needs a new home. This cheetah would make an inspiring wildlife ambassador at Daktari Bush School.

Activities

The cheetah needs a home. De Wildt, the cheetah’s owners, have specific guide-lines for enclosures, which will cost us $11,060 USD. Once the new enclosure is built the cheetah can become part of Daktari Bush School’s education programme.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: £288

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled £288. The original project funding goal was £8,769.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

Resources

Project's External Homepage (http://www.daktaribushschool.org)

Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

The cheetah will be part of our programme to educate underprivileged youth so they will eventually be able to secure good employment in nature reserves. It will also inspire children to take action to protect wildlife and their fragile environment.

Project Message

A cheetah is an amazing example of our wildlife. The cheetah will make a tremendous impact on the underprivileged children attending our school, as most of them have never seen an impala or giraffe!
- Michele Merrifield, Director and Founder, Daktari

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Michele Merrifield,
Founder
Daktari Bush School & Wildlife Orphanage
P.O. Box 1599
Hoedspruit, Limpopo 1380
South Africa
002 782 656 2969
Email:

Project Sponsor

Michele Merrifield

Organisation

DAKTARI Bush School & Wildlife Orphanage
Bona Ingwe Farm - PO Box 1599 Harmony bloc 81
Hoedspruit, Limpopo Province 1380
South Africa
+27826562969
http://www.daktaribushschool.org

Learn more about DAKTARI Bush School & Wildlife Orphanage and the project team.

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in South Africa and can also be found under Animals.

For more information about South Africa, read the Human Development Report on South Africa or the Wikipedia entry for South Africa.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on July 23, 2010.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on January 22, 2009.

Latest Update from the Field

Predator Camp

By Ian and Michele Merrifield - Directors, December 07, 2009 03:14 PM

Dear Supporters,

It was time to move forward with our cheetah camp project. The cost of the camp to the requirement of the donors of the retired cheetah was far out of our budget and we didn’t want to wait years to give the children the opportunity to admire a predator. A generous sponsor, a few private ones, and your donation gave us enough funds to build a smaller but very decent predator camp.

We went into action, bought supplies and with the man power donated by a Daktari friend the building started. The camp is almost completed and still need a few adjustments. In a few weeks we will be able to advertise the potential home for any predator in need and hopefully we will share our passion for our wildlife with our local children.

The camp is a quarter of a hectare (50m x 50m), has lots of trees, shade and a big water trough. Surely we can already picture a peaceful lion, an active leopard, a majestic cheetah or even a naughty hyena there and can’t wait for the next arrival.

We thank you for your support toward our work and hope you appreciate our move into action to achieve as much as we can for the survival or our rich wildlife protection.

You can contact us to let us know how you feel about our decision on the use of your donation.

We will certainly need more camps to be built and will, in time, offer you another animal camp to sponsor through Global Giving. In the mean time you are more than welcome to support us toward our on going running project of covering the cost to welcome underprivileged children for a week of education about environment. You can follow this links below if you would like to carry on supporting our work.

We wish you a happy Christmas with your friends and family and look forward to hear from you.

Ian and Michele

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