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African Fund for Endangered Wildlife |
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In 1974, Betty Leslie-Melville, founder and chairman of AFEW, began the first successful project of raising the number of endangered Rothschild giraffes from 130 to over 300. AFEW's second project was to establish the first educational nature sanctuary in independent Africa. Last year AFEW brought over 40,000 African school children to the center free of charge to teach them how to conserve their animal heritage. Children now overflow the center, so more classroom space is needed.
85% of Africans have never seen a wild animal. They can't afford a car or the entrance fees to go into game parks. Now they are able to see and feed the giraffe and warthogs, and also walk through the Jock Leslie-Melville Sanctuary - AFEW's primeval forest - with an educational officer who teaches them about environmental protection matters.
In addition to saving animals from extinction, the conservation of Kenya's precious natural resource - animals - will also save her people who rely on tourism for valuable foreign currency and literally hundreds of thousands of jobs. |
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Web site: www.gcci.org/afew/afew.htm
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Art for ConservationTM Commitment Goal:
$10,125.00 US.
African Fund for Endangered Wildlife has been indicated by AFC members as a potential recipient of donations by participating artists. AFC's Art for ConservationTM program, provides a forum to promote artwork that benefits recognized conservation organizations such as African Fund for Endangered Wildlife.
AFC members have voluntarily and independently earmarked a portion of the proceeds from the sale of their artwork to African Fund for Endangered Wildlife. AFC's Art for ConservationTM program provides a forum to help promote artwork for sale that includes such a commitment. Each artists's commitment is contingent on the sale of their work and the above estimate is a potential total based on the completion of sale of any original work and/or limited editions. The AFC is not involved in any way with artwork sales transactions, nor does it make any guarantees relating to artist commitments. The AFC takes no commission whatsoever from the sale of artwork under the Art for ConservationTM program, unless explicitly indicated.
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