S.O.S. for Club P.A.N. in Cote d'Ivoire

The environmental education project of the Wild Chimpanzee Foundation - Club P.A.N., has finished all activities in the three schools in the west of the Taï National Park in Côte d’Ivoire: Gouléako 2, Sakré and Ziriglo. We reached a total of 141 children with 12 sessions and their families through parents’ days at the end of the program in March 2016. The pre- and post-evaluations of children and parents are now being analysed. During our active conservation session Number 11, where the children can do something for the environment, we had great tree planting activities in all three schools.

In the two schools in the east of the Taï National Park: Petit Tiémé and Adamakro, the final Club P.A.N. sessions are still ongoing. In total 119 children take part in the program there. Post-evaluations and parents’ days are planned for May. A final report with the evaluation results will be published by WCF latest in July 2016.

We would like to thank all donors from the GlobalGiving platform, and the German partner-schools: Kepler Gymnasium Leipzig and Alexander von Humboldt Gymnasium Werdau, for making this environmental education project possible!

In November 2015, Club P.A.N. started in 3 schools in the West of the Taï National Park: Gouléako 2, Sakré and Ziriglo. In total, we reach in these schools 141 children.

In the school of Gouléako 2, Konan Sévérin Yao is the animating teacher working with 52 children. Modeste Gnonkonte is the teacher of Sakré teaching 49 children this year. Modeste is with the Club P.A.N. environmental education project since its start in 2007. Pierre Kouassi Sekre is our teacher in Ziriglo with 40 children.

15 children from each school were personally interviewed by our local coordinator Ouattara Dabila before the sessions started for our pre-evaluation data collection. The same children will also participate in a post-evaluation after they have finished all 12 Club P.A.N. sessions. Right now, these 3 schools are participating in Club P.A.N. session Number 7. They are probably done with the 12 sessions, post-evaluations and parents’ days in June 2016.

In the two schools of Ziriglo and Sakré the WCF is also supporting school micro-projects to teach the children alternatives to bush-meat hunting and consumption by breeding their own protein sources. The Giant African snail farm in Sakré is active since 5 years now, the children and teachers are feeding, breeding and selling the snails. At the moment, they have 15 big breeding snails, 73 small snails and 73 snail eggs. The chicken farm micro-project in Ziriglo had some bad luck this year, because several chicken died because of a disease, now there remain 12 hens, 1 cock and 1 small chicken. But they will continue working on their farm.

Thanks to the donations from their German partner-schools (Kepler Gymnasium Leipzig, Alexander von Humboldt Gymnasium Werdau), the Club P.A.N. program also starts now in February 2016, in 2 schools in the East of the Taï National Park. With these two schools, WCF works since several years and they are very motivated: the schools of Petit Tiémé and Adamakro.

Instead of 15 Club P.A.N. schools, we can only be active in 5 during this year. But it is at least something and we would like to thank all donors that made this happen!

Furthermore, we want to thank our local coordinators Ouattara Dabila, Hilaire Guilahoux and Andrien Kouadio Kouakou from the CPE (Cellule des Projets Environnementaux, Soubré, Côte d'Ivoire)!