Rhino friends enjoying a soccer match at the World Rhino Day celebrations Credit: SRT
Save the Rhino Trust
Awareness and community outreach
Learners from a local school during a march on World Rhino Day 2022
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Player during Rhino Cup Youth Champions League games
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Learners from the local schools during implementation of the Reading with Rhinos Programme
Save the Rhino Trust
The purpose of this building block is to ensure that the broader communities are involved in the conservation efforts through activities that they are passionate about i.e youth through sports, school children through reading programmes. This helps to improve the connectedness that the local people have with the rhinos and they value the rhino more.
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Organized youth groups and structures
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Willing and welcoming community
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Strong partner co-operation
Feedback meetings attended by conservancy leadership have proven to be an important communication tool to discuss objectives, challenges and ways to improve the monitoring programme. We have also implemented various projects to engage local communities through sports, reading programmes and youth clubs. Through awareness campaigns local people feel and realize the important role they play towards the conservation of rhinos.