DSWT Community Outreach Report May 2014

COMMUNITY OUTREACH MONTHLY REPORT MAY 2014 SUMMARY: In May 2014, the DSWT’s Community Outreach program hosted four school trips, four wildlife video shows, and registered 100 school children with the Wildlife Clubs of Kenya (WCK). For communities neighbouring protected wildlife areas, the DSWT operates programmes which raise wildlife conservation awareness amongst community members.

SCHOOL TRIPS Gimba primary school-1 Gimba primary school-2 Kalambe primary school-1 Kalambe primary school-2

STUDENTS TEACHERS 25 25 25 25

3 3 3 3

TOTAL

100

12

FILM SHOWS

STUDENTS TEACHERS

Mushirinyi primary school Gimba primary school Kalambe primary school Sowa primary school

TOTAL

26th May, 2014 28th May, 2014 30th May, 2014 31st May, 2014

20th May,2014 21st May, 2014 23rd May, 2014 29th May,2014

245 478 390 431

10 12 11 15

1544

48

MAY 2014 SCHOOL FIELD TRIPS

Field trips offer a perfect opportunity to teach school children about environmental conservation outside of the classroom. To further facilitate pupils understating of nature, a trip-booklet (with a brief history of the greater Tsavo Conservation Area, and a spotter’s guide) is issued to the pupils. Field trip participants are awarded a certificate of participation which certifies that the holder is a ‘Wildlife Guardian’.

In the month of May, the DSWT took one hundred pupils for a full day’s field trip to Tsavo East National Park where they had the opportunity to visit the park’s Education Centre, the Aruba Dam, the DSWT’s Voi Elephant stockades and Mudanda Rock. Pupils spotted different species of wildlife including Elephants, Cheetah, Lions, Gazelles, Kudu, Waterbuck, Buffalo and Oryx.

MAY 2014 SCHOOL WILDLIFE FILM SHOWS

A wildlife film show is a very effective means of passing a conservation message to school children. The DSWT’s films encompass general conservation practices, wildlife behaviours and threats to wildlife. In May DSWT hosted four film shows. These shows were attended by school children, teachers and their parents.

The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust is reliant on your kind support in order to keep our community outreach projects running.

For more information about these projects please visit www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.com/community or email info@dswt.org