The 10th annual Hog Charge event has raised
Ksh 2, 776,308 for the Rhino Ark Aberdare
Fence.
Held at the Kahawa Sukari Ranch, Ruiru,
on Sunday 27th April, it attracted 83 teams
from over 17 schools. Children from different
schools participated in this event and hundreds
of supportive parents and friends attended.
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Aberdares’ most valued asset for all
Kenyans is its water catchment. p>Plans
for any developments must be conditional
on this prime asset.
An integrated Ecosystem Management Plan
that commits all ad hoc plans to the scrutiny
of a ‘holistic policy’ and the
revenue positive role the Rhino Ark Aberdare
fence and its ‘access protocols’
into the Aberdare Conservation Area were
stressed as ‘prime requirements’
by the Kenya Wildlife Service and Kenya
Forest Service directors at the commissioning
of the 60 km of Phases Seven and Eight on
April 24th.
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Rhino Charge entrants to this weekend’s
Rob’s Magic Quattro Charge took the
top six positions in the expert section.
Ten of the thirty entrants in the expert
section were Rhino Charge cars. Winner Rommy
Bamrah of Car 40 Rhino Charge received a
winning bonus of Ksh 160,000 towards his
Rhino Charge 2008 pledge.
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BBC World Service Radio run a fortnightly
broadcast under the title: World Business
Report. Their correspondent Wycliffe Muga,
one of only five who run this programme
globally, visited the Aberdares with James
Githui and myself a month ago.
For more details, click the
link below. .
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Probably for the first time, the Rhino Ark
website can feature some of the video shot
during the Rhino Charge 2007. Click the
rhino for more ...
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This year Charlie Campbell, Tim Eyre, Robert
Klingenschmid, Matt Oxley and Rich Perez
ran the London Marathon for Rhino Ark and
the Multiple Sclerosis Research Society.
£4800 was raised for
Rhino Ark and an equal amount for MSRC.
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A grant of usd dollars 50,000 (ksh 3.3 million)
is being provided by UNDP’s Global
Environment Facility Small Grants Programme
(GEF-SGP) to Rhino Ark.
The grant is to support Rhino
Ark’s Bongo Surveillance Project initiated
in the Aberdares and outreaching to Mt.
Kenya and other mountain forests in which
the project has identified remnant herds
of wild Bongo.
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Nobel Laureate Prof Wangari Maathai has
become a patron of the Rhino Ark Charitable
Trust.
This was announced in a joint
communiqué from the Chairman of Rhino
Ark’s Board of Trustees, Michael Karanja
and Prof Maathai.
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Rhino Ark Charitable Trust has appointed
Mr. James Githui as Fence/Community Manager
to be based in Nyeri.
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Rhino Charge 2008 entries were closed at
12 noon today 28th August 2007, 4½
days prior to the closure of the ksh 500,000
pledge deadline.
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Rhino Ark has received significant donations
in the first quarter of 2007.
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The new Strategic Evaluation Document now
available for download. This document may
be used by Rhino Chargers in their fundraising,
or any one who wants more information and
details about the project.
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Rhino Ark has received Ksh4m. from the Safaricom
Foundation for fence construction. The funds
are being used for where the build team
are currently working on the elephant corridor
section fence which links Mt. Kipipiri with
the main Aberdare range.
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… Kimunya pledges further support.
The Minister for Finance,
Hon Amos Kimunya announced specific Treasury
support to Rhino Ark for fence materials
to the value of ksh 30 million in this budget
year at the Commissioning Ceremony for Phase
Six in Njabini on November 3, 2006.
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Born Free's Founder and President, Virginia
McKenna recently made an extensive visit
to see the fence project.
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Tight lock wire worth Ksh 9.16 million has
been received from the Forest Department
for Rhino Ark's Aberdare Fence construction
programme.
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We are pleased to inform you that you can
now register your team for online donations
in the Rhino Charge in both the Uk and the
US.
To set up a page:
For US donations go to:
Firstgiving.com/Rhino Ark Kenya Charitable
Trust Inc.
And for UK donations go to
justgiving.com/Rhino Ark
and follow the steps thereon
and please remember to inform your friends
in the U.S. and UK!
Valerie J Gunputrav
Management Committee
Rhino Ark Charitable Trust
PO Box 181 Uhuru Gardens
00517 Nairobi Kenya
Tel: 254-20-609866 / 604246
Fax: 254-20-604246
Cellphone: 254-733-632460/254-724-604233
Email: Rhino
Ark
Web: www.rhinoark.org
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