By Patience Wambugu | Fundraising Manager
Team Colobus is grateful for the support provided by our supporters on GlobalGiving. We began our campaign on Giving Tuesday, which was on 29th November 2022, hoping to raise funds to buy a new rescue vehicle to help expand our work to Kwale County. This need for expansion came about due to various reasons, which include;
1. The rescue truck that the organization owns cannot cover the Diani and Kwale stretch concurrently. Hence, relying on it while expanding Colobus Conservation's work would result in delays in rescue operations. Therefore, a new rescue truck would be more efficient and reliable, reducing the time and cost of rescue operations.
2. The need to access communities living in Colobus adjacent forests. The vehicle would be used to carry indigenous tree seedlings for forest landscape restoration, and equipment for our conservation outreach programs. These outreach programs are aimed at supporting the communities that rely on forest ecosystem services while protecting the threatened colobus monkey and other primates, as well as other forest-dependent wildlife.
Our target for the December campaign was $20,000 and we raised $12,345 both online and offline. After this campaign, we tried reaching out to different corporates and individuals to raise the difference of $7,655 but to no avail. Our ideal rescue vehicle was a new double-cabin pickup truck but due to the amount raised, we are now considering buying a second-hand double-cabin pickup truck or a Toyota Succeed by mid-April to help in the expansion of our work to Kwale County. The first step towards our expansion efforts is carrying out a survey in Kwale, which Team Colobus has already begun. This survey is specifically meant to establish the presence of Colobus monkeys and the threats they face in their forest habitats. Through this survey, Colobus Conservation hopes to have a better understanding of the challenges and needs of the communities living adjacent to forests, so that appropriate initiatives can be curated by Team Colobus to support forest landscape restoration in Kwale. The survey began on the 15th of March 2023 and is still ongoing.
We hope to get back by Mid April with news and pictures of the vehicle we will purchase.
Kindly find attached the photos of the survey happening in Kaya Muhaka, which is part of Kwale County.
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