Posts tagged “Community”

A big thank you from the Kariega Foundation to our guest Anne Leitch from Australia who handed over a bunch of sports shirts to the students at Farmerfield School for the netball and soccer team. The teams are all very excited to play their first match in their official team shirts!

On Wednesday, the Kariega Volunteers teamed up with Rooting-for-Rhino and the Kingsley Holgate Foundation to bring the Children's Rhino Art Project to Farmerfield School. The Children's Rhino Art Project is a drive to raise awareness of rhino poaching amoung the youth, aiming to reach 200 000 children before World Rhino Day on the 22 September 2013.

The Kariega team joined hands to celebrate Mandela Day.

2012 got off to a flying start with a full house of volunteers, a great bunch of people of various ages and nationalities all coming together for an African experience of a lifetime. Although we had some fun activities lined up for them, this...

Every weekend from the 16th of September to the 27th of November this year, local Matrics have traveled to Woody Cape to attend a camp for content gap students. Content gaps occur when students have not been taught the curriculum for...

This month the Kariega Volunteer Programme team positioned the leopard research trail cameras in new spots around the reserve. These motioned censored cameras capture pictures of animals moving past them, in the hopes of obtaining a picture of one...

Recent conservation volunteers at Kariega Game Reserve really did their bit by helping a local, rural school with a clean-up day. Volunteers got stuck in laying out new flower beds, fixing fences and painting. Thank you Kariega volunteers and...

The new volunteers this month got a taste of excitement from day one of their arrival at Kariega Game Reserve when they assisted in the release of three Bat-eared foxes. These small furry creatures were quick to dart out of their travelling boxes and head for the bushes, but one particularly friendly (or confused) bat-eared fox obliged us by stopping for photos right in front of the boma fence that we were perched on. It was a great opportunity to work so closely with some of the smaller and shier animals found on the reserve!