School Gardens to Save Eastern Chimpanzee

Dear friends, donors and supporters,

Warm greetings, and thank you for your continued support.

This April marked an exciting step forward for our project, as we moved from planning into direct community impact. One of our key highlights this month has been the launch of our collaboration with Inyenyeri, a group of 10 inspiring women committed to restoring their environment around Gishwati-Mukura National Park.

With your support, we provided 11 sewing machines and fabric, enabling the group to begin practical activities that combine livelihood improvement with environmental responsibility. For many of these women, this is more than a new skill it is a pathway to independence and a chance to actively contribute to conservation efforts in their community.

At the same time, we continued engaging students, schools, and local leaders in environmental awareness activities, reinforcing the importance of protecting the Eastern chimpanzees and their fragile habitat.

While our project focuses on the conservation of the endangered Eastern chimpanzees, your support also helps protect many other species that share this unique ecosystem such as the golden monkeys pictured in this report. By preserving and restoring this habitat, we are safeguarding the rich biodiversity of the region as a whole.

What makes this month especially meaningful is seeing these efforts come together education, community action, and conservation creating real momentum on the ground.

We are grateful to have you as part of this journey. Your support is helping turn ideas into lasting impact

Emmanuel BUGINGO

Project Team Leader

Dear friends, donors and supporters,

It is my honour to have a such opportunity to get in touch with you via this progressive report. I know that you have been following our work via our social media and other source of information which makes us strong in regards to achieving our goal. As mentioned in the previous progressive report, thanks to your generosity, the project has been able to raise funds that have enabled us to organize two seasons of environmental education. This has driven our activities for the reporting period as we built on that to maintain the interaction and exchange of information between the project stakeholders including staff, students, school leaders, park and local authorities on our shared value of the conservation of our Eastern chimpanzees listed on the IUCN red list of threatened species. 

Another great news is that, we managed to start working with Inyenyeri, which i s a 10 women group established to drive Nature-based solutions for the restoration of Gishwati-Mukura National Park, home to the endangered East African Chimpanzees. We started by providing 11 sewing machines, and fabric to start with.

For us, this a great opportunity to synergize for the future of our cousins.

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