The five weekers get to work!

All of the participants on the five week expedition have had their training at Fieldbase and are now working hard on their project sites. Alpha 5 are with Project Managers Eileen and Rob at Harnas where they will be building enclosures for the animals and helping Na an ku se’s development into a rehabilitation centre for orphaned, sick and injured animals. These environmental enthusiasts are Suzanne, Mark, Yae ji, Joseph, Jacob, Elena Dimitrova, Darren, Frances, Elena Barnes, Vevanguane, Roswitha and Joanna.

Lorraine and Nikki are project managing the building of playground up at Onameya school. Raleigh built the school during the spring expedition and has gone back to build a playground for the school children. Alpha 6 includes Jessica, Laura, Carrie, Sasho, Tom Austin, Claudia, Tom Barker, Chris, Corinne, Fiina and Gerson.

Alpha 7 is another playground project, this time at Hangholme school, which was also built by Raleigh and is in the far north of Namibia, close to the Angolan border. The Project Managers are Catherine and Pete and the group includes Lee, Amy, April, Donald, Laura, Lucy, Robin, Ka-Lee, Michael, Lukas, Cletha and Courtney.

Alpha 5 has already made great progress at Harnas, building hundreds of metres of fence and visiting the animals. Alpha 6 and 7 have been working with their local communities to plan and design their playgrounds and are now starting the hard work!