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Three
Placement
Organisations -
Campfire
Safaris -
Volunteer, internship and learning project
ROKPA
- Humanitarian
Transfrontier Africa - Conservation Projects
We run
a volunteer, internship and learning project in the Kruger
National Park (Balule Nature Reserve, Limpopo province,
South Africa). Our successes speak for it self for the past
seven and a half years!! Over 800 volunteers have been visiting
our project and we have many of them returning and advising
their friends to visit us.
Campfire
Safaris have tailored several programmes to choose from
in an endeavor to meet the needs of different people. These
include tourism, volunteer work experience, internship and
practical training placement, field guidesphotographic sarfaris
course.
Contact
Website:
www.campfire-safaris.com
E-mail:
martiens.c@absamail.co.za
Cell: +2782 372 8751
Fax: +2786 621 4831
Every
year thousands of migrants arrive in Johannesburg, not just
from rural areas but also as refugees from other African
countries. They join the high number of homeless and destitute
people already struggling to survive on the streets. Many
have HIV/AIDS. Life for those left in rural areas is no
better.
The
Tswana people at Groot Marico, a rural backwater, have been
caught in a cycle of poverty and many there have HIV/AIDS
too. Exploitative landlords, slave wages and ill-health
have produced a hopelessness resulting in alcoholism and
child neglect.
Opportunities
The
Rokpa Soup Kitchen in Johannesburg which provides food,
clothing and advice about HIV/AIDS. Help is also given through
outreach work among the homeless community, offering counselling
as well as encouragement to children and young adults to
settle in shelters where education is on offer.
Contact
E-mail:
charity@RokpaUK.org
Address:
ROKPA UK Overseas Projects Kagyu Samye Ling, Eskdalemuir,
Langholm, Dumfriesshire DG13 0QL
Telephone: 013873 73232 Ext: 230
Fax: 013873 73223
Transfrontier
Africa offers an amazing opportunity to experience a conservation
project in the Greater Kruger Park, South Africa.
This
is an initiative of the OWGR Game Rangers Association and
is designed as a long-term data capture project to establish
a resource base of information that can assist the managers
in decision-making processes associated with the wildlife
of this area.
The
outputs or products of this initiative will assist managers
and game rangers in understanding the following:
- Monitor
long term trends in animal and vegetation communities (association
of species). - Animal movement patters.
- Help predict changes in animal and vegetation communities.
- Help to detect any undesirable changes / manipulation
of vegetation and animal populations / communities. - Provide
baseline data on which to evaluate trends and changes and
therefore provide a basis for ecological management decision.
- This data will also assist in demonstrating the effectiveness
of management actions.
- Prevent speculation based on short-term observations.
- Identify any crisis in specific species populations or
communities timorously.
- Best practise guide for consumptive and non-consumptive
activities in the reserve.
This
data capture regime will assist in understanding the following:
- Movement patterns.
- Changes in behaviour (habituation, effects of hunting,
etc.).
- Inter and intra species competition (EG. Predator / prey,
predator / predator). - Recruitment rates. - Predict seasonal
trends in wild life populations.
- Draw a correlation between primary production (grazing
/ browsing materials), consumers (browsers, grazers) and
water resources.
Contact
Website: www.transfrontierafrica.co.uk
E-mail: adam@transfrontierafrica.co.uk
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