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GAWPT has raised a donation to re-site and re-drill the water windmill pump in Asako village that was installed a couple of years ago. This will ensure a better supply of clean water for the villagers [link]

Mnazi and Buiku Secondary Schools Mnazi Secondary School and Buiku Secondary School have both received donations from GAWPT to build a classroom each.  Both schools are getting on with the building works [link]

Rhinos and dogs The new rhino calf born to Marina in July is a male.  Pete Morkel has been in Mkomazi to look at a wound on the back leg of one of the breeding females.  The wild dog pups are in good shape and we will start their vaccination schedule for rabies and canine distemper in October 2010 [link]

George Adamson's death remembered Kenya Wildlife services (KWS) organised a big event on 20th August to commemorate the 21st anniversary of George Adamson's death.  The event took place in Kora National Park with the main ceremony of the day being held at the graves of George and Terence Adamson. [more]

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Community works

posted 06 Jan 2010

The Trust’s plant machinery has been out at Dindira Dam and Kavateta Dam, working to desilt these two major water sources.  TANAPA provided labour, a lorry and fuel and it was a timely desilting programme as, when the rains came, they filled up Dindira and even Kavateta held some water.  Kavateta is always a difficult engineering job: it probably needs machines on it for at least 6 months until the job is done properly.  Tony flies at least twice a week on patrol to back up the TANAPA rangers in the field

We have donated the building materials for a classroom each to four schools over the past year and all four classrooms are now complete.


The Environmental Education programme will resume again in late January, now that the schools have gone back after their Christmas holiday.  We will wait until the rain subsides to send the bus out again to collect the students.  The roads can be treacherous in the rains and it is obviously safe to wait until everything dries out a bit so that there are no risks of the bus slipping around.  Since June 2008, when the programme started, we have brought in 1,200 people on this education programme.