"The Friends of Hwange Newsletters"

Friends of Hwange Trust

Saving Zimbabwe's Largest National Park

In partnership with Wildlife & Environment Zimbabwe + National Parks & Wildlife Management Authority

October/november 2006.

It is hot and dry in Zimbabwe and we are running the 10 waterholes on 24 hr shifts!  We are therefore using a lot of diesel to keep these going.  We would be extremely grateful for any donations towards purchasing diesel.  Hopefully I will only need to buy one more load of fuel about 5000 litres until the rains start! Please contact Maha (maha@friendsofhwange.co.zw) if you are able to help in any way!

The Friends of Hwange – Tamryn Pohl Collection

Last Friday was the launch of our Tamryn Pohl Raffle at Tamryn’s “Hwange” exhibition held at Richard Rennie Art Gallery.  The evening was a great success, with Tamryn presenting some of her best work yet, live music and many patrons.  Our raffle launch was also a great success and thank you to all of our supporters that evening!!!! 

                The raffle is ongoing and tickets for the 5 paintings, which are framed, can still be purchased.  The raffle will only be held once we have sold all tickets and there are 200 tickets available for each painting.  Currently the price is ZW$10 000 per ticket.

                There are several ways you may purchase tickets from us.  You may visit Maha at her office in Harare and purchase your ticket with cash or cheque. Maha’s contact details are: maha@friendsofhwange.co.zw; Triton Centre, Office No 6, 176 Enterprise Rd, Harare, 498253 (tel) 011 870 733 (cell) 498480 (fax).

Or you may deposit the amount into our account; Bank Details: Stanbic Bank; Borrowdale Branch 3104; Acc Name: Friends of Hwange Trust; Acc No.: 01400 9224 3201.  Please send Maha a copy of the deposit slip and let her know for which painting you are purchasing tickets for.

Rhino Patrol Unit

Thank you to the following people for their generous donations and support towards the Rhino Patrol Unit: Feredays’s & Sons, Ian Chatterton and Maja Kenig.  Thanks to their donations the list of items needed has shrunk significantly, however there are still a few things left and any help (old or new) will go a long way!

sleeping bags x 3

two men tents x 2

stretcher beds x 10

ruck sacks x 10

binos x 4

digital cameras x 2

patrol boots x 10

jungle hats x 10

rain coats x 10

Windmills

After several obstacles that had to be overcome the windmills have finally arrived and have been installed in Hwange.    The windmills are of very good quality and installation only took a week for the two windmills to be erected and in good working order.  I am hoping to have some photos for you for the next Newsletter.

Thank you to Friamie and his crew for their diligence at the border and all their hard work.  A big thank you to Speedlink for all their help at the border!

Thank you!

We would like to thank the following companies and individuals for their generous donations:

Maja Kenig

Bob & Claire Sankey

N. Zimmermann & Ross Holland

Feredays & Sons

Ian Chatterton

Castrol Zimbabwe

Trustees: G.R. Brown; A.J. Preston; P. Turner; D. Dell; B. Edwards; Founder: R.A. Franklin
The Triton Centre, 176 Enterprise Rd, Chisipite, Box HG 261, Highlands, Harare, Zimbabwe
Tel: +263-4 498835/6; Mobile: +263-11-870733;Email: maha@friendsofhwange.co.zw
Website: www.hwangetrust.com

“Five Shrikes”, courtesy of Doug Fitzgerald, a friend of Hwange and an amazing photographer.

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