Dr Cheryl and Manny Mvula arranged by Paul Downes
The High Five Club
The High Five Club is a UK registered charity that works hand in hand with impoverished communities living in wildlife areas of Africa.Â
Their priorities are:
Poverty Reduction, Education, Health & Nutrition, Environmental Sustainable Livelihoods
We are looking to possibly partner with them to raise funds for 2 one-off projects:
1. Start a new school breakfast club in Zambia
https://thehigh5club.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/malimba-breakfast-club.pdf
2. Fund the building of a new well; Clean Water Provision Project in Zambia. (The well will be built by the villagers and with local expertise)
https://thehigh5club.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/cleanwaterprovisionreportphase4.pdf
Cheryl and Manny live in Whitstable and have organised a 2 week trip to Zambia for 2016. Ten people will be going from Whitstable/Canterbury including myself, Karien and Celia Rumley (from Canterbury Sunrise Rotary Club).Â
We will be staying at a wildlife park for the 1st week and will be involved in a community-based project in the 2nd week. The local community will decide what project they would like us to work on.
Cheryl and Manny spoke to the Canterbury Club in the New Year and President Richard Davis is very positive about supporting the 2 projects. (President Richard cycled with our Whitstable team in France last year and so there are already some good contacts). If we also support the projects then we could arrange a joint meeting with Canterbury Sunrise on our return from Zambia in 2016 and report on the projects first-hand.
Dr. Cheryl Mvula runs her own Responsible Tourism Consultancy, Tribal Voice Communications, spending much of her time in Africa working with local communities, conservation organisations and tourism businesses to harness the power of tourism for wildlife conservation and sustainable local development.
Cherylâs husband, Manny Mvula, is from Zambia and is one of Africaâs top safari guides, a wildlife conservationist and a field trip leader. He regularly makes trips back to his home country of Zambia to work on wildlife conservation and community development projects in the Luangwa Valley, the area in which he was born and raised.
See this YouTube clip of Manny preventing an elephant from charging a group of schoolchildren on a tour in Zambia last year!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiQNRdhjy9A |
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