ARID NEWS
Good deeds for Kgalagadi By Genevieve Maasdorp
Kgalagadi team receiving wish list items from Honorary Rangers
The Honorary Rangers gifted Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park this month with much needed items that was on the park’s wish list and through that did just one of their numerous good deeds for the organisation. Among the gifted items were solar pumps, wheelie bins, a compressor for the Nossob 4x4 Eco Route and toolkits for the Wilderness Camps, just to name a few. The Park Manager, Steven Smith, received these good deeds with a grateful heart and expressed the following words: “These gifts mean the world to us and will definitely assist the organisation in ensuring that we give the best possible experience to our guests. Thank you, from the bottom of our hearts.” The Honorary Rangers are a big part of South African National Parks and are always willing to raise funds to purchase items we need to relieve a
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little bit of the financial strain as well as to ensure that all the parks are managed in an efficient and professional manner. The total worth of the gifts was R280 000 and was gifted from funds of the Loffiesdraai Bushcamp and the Nossob Eco Route fundraising projects. Each year a wish list is given to the Honorary Rangers that includes items the park desperately needs, but do not have the funding to buy themselves. These wish lists are then approved through a committee consisting of SANParks personnel and the senior management of the Honorary Rangers. This year was the first time in recorded history that all the items listed on the wish list were approved and given in one go to Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. The SANParks Honorary Rangers is a non-compulsory organisation that assists the organisation each year to reach its conservation and community targets. During 2020 food parcels to the amount of R60 000 were given to previously disadvantaged communities surrounding Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park together with PPE equipment.
