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Production on our relaunch collection has begun!
For the first time in Wildlife Works’ 14 year history, we brought our screen printing process in house, making us the largest screen printing operation in Kenya outside of Nairobi. And here it is: I was reminded of power of pure human skill as I watched these guys produce what machines here in the west do in seconds. Peter, our color specialist, was able to mix and match a pantone color swatch by eye with 80% accuracy, on the FIRST try. Since we didn’t have running water at this site, the newly exposed screens had to be sprayed off by hand with a handheld spritzer bottle. Not one guy complained…
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Rangers Recruitment Day 2, Marapou Borehole, Sagalla – 6th November 2010
By Lara Cowan – Office Manager – 6th November 2010. Wildlife Works Rangers Recruitment Day 2 at Marapu Borehole, 6 November 2010 The recruitment day at Marapu was to allow the communities of Sagalla Hill lower such as Zomngwani, Raghasi, Marapau Talio B, Teri B to participate in the recruitment process. These are new community areas from Phase II, and are not yet being employed by Wildlife Works Carbon. It was very important to involve them. Our Rangers and management at the Marapu Borehole completing registration. All applicants had to come with their IDS, Application letters, be between the age of 18 to 40 years old and for men be…
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Rangers Recruitment December 2010
By Rob Dodson – General Manager, 31 May 2010 To: ALL CHIEF CAMPS Re: RANGERS RECRUITMENT Wildlife Works would like to inform you that our recruitment was successful, and the total number who qualified and have been shortlisted, as Rangers was 30. We are still building/preparing the camps, and once we are done we will employ all the number of Rangers selected. The listed names below 14 men and 6 ladies are the shortlist and will be trained between January to March 2011. They represent 5 recruits from each of the 4 areas where the recruitments were held. 1. Jane Mwae from Bondeni 2. Constance Mwandaa from Talio 3. Grace…
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Rangers Recruitment Day 1 at Kajire, Sagalla Hill – 5 November 2010
By Lara Cowan – Office Manager – 5th November 2010 Wildlife Works Rangers Recruitment Day 1 at Kajire 5 November 2010 Total number of Community members participated 63. 22 of them were ladies! All participants completed the Race. The recruitment was held at Kajire to involve the communities of lower Sagalla: the people living in Ndara B and Kishamba B Community Ranches The start at Kajire town Our “First Lady” runner Mrs. Grace Vita Mwalumba – Congratulations to her! Below the WWC Rangers assisting in the placement of the Runners by the ACK church at Kajire town. The run took place through town past the Primary and Secondary schools.…
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WW hosts the Sixth Field Dialogue for Interests in Investing in Locally Controlled Forests
By Jimmy Eggers, Wildlife Works Special Projects Wildlife Works hosts the Sixth Field Dialogue for Interests in Investing in Locally Controlled Forests Sponsors include Wildlife Works, Nedbank As the owners and protector-operators of the Africa’s first carbon offset project under the new (2009) REDD guidelines, Wildlife Works was happy to recently host members of The Forests Dialogue (TFD) on November 29, 2010. There were some 47 members from all parts of the world, including Canada, the USA, Scandanavia, Europe, Asia, Central America, South America, and Africa. Delightfully, these travelers were able to mingle and exchange ideas with the chiefs and directors of the very communities adjacent to and supporting our REDD+…
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Sagalla Hill Tree Planting Program December 2010
By Silvester Mkamaganga, Foresterer Wildlife Works Carbon- 5th December 2010 NAYIBINGI TREE PLANTING PROGRAM INTRODUCTION Nayibingi Sports Club is a registered self-help group. It is located in Sagalla Hill, Voi District in Kenya. It started as a football club for youth but has since then branched into in to other areas in order to meet the needs of the village youth such as education, environmental conservation, drama and theater and other issues affecting the community. Through Nayibingi leader Robert Mwangala, Wildlife Works Carbon managed to participate in a tree planting program in the Sagalla community for the purpose of environmental conservation. Objectives The main objective is of this program is…
