Dr Cheryl and Manny Mvula arranged by Paul Downes
The High Five Cl ub
The High Five Club is a UK registered charity that works hand in h and with impoverished communities living in wildlife areas of Africa.Â
Their priorities are:
Poverty Reduction, Education, Health & Nutri tion, Environmental Sustainable Livelihoods
We are looking to possibl y partner with them to raise funds for 2 one-off projects:
1. Start a new school breakfast club in Zambia
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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)< /p>
https://thehigh5club.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/ cleanwaterprovisionreportphase4.pdf
Cheryl and Manny live in Whit stable and have organised a 2 week trip to Zambia for 2016. Ten people will be going from Whitstable/Canterbury including myself, Karien and Celia Rum ley (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 pr oject in the 2nd week. The local community will decide what project they wo uld 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 support ing the 2 projects. (President Richard cycled with our Whitstable team in F rance last year and so there are already some good contacts). If we also su pport the projects then we could arrange a joint meeting with Canterbury Su nrise on our return from Zambia in 2016 and report on the projects first-ha nd.
Dr. Cheryl Mvula runs her own Responsible Tourism Consultancy, Tr ibal Voice Communications, spending much of her time in Africa working with local communities, conservation organisations and tourism businesses to ha rness the power of tourism for wildlife conservation and sustainable local development.
Cherylâs husband, Manny Mvula, is from Zambia and is o ne 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 Lu angwa Valley, the area in which he was born and raised.
See this YouT ube clip of Manny preventing an elephant from charging a group of schoolchi ldren on a tour in Zambia last year!!
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