It really felt as though my community in west oxford, far, far from the damp forest of Northern Mozambique and the onslaught of elephant poaching, made a bridge and reached out to Mareja and its community.
There was a delicious and burgeoning home made cake store run by Joyce, Annabel led adult and children animal yoga, Kelly provided a creative elephant mask making session with lots of sparkle, Maureen and Aylse sold high-end second-hand items, Dominik organised 'pin the tail on the elephant', Donate sold our new t-shirts and then the star of the event Nick Cope appeared.
Nick performed for us in aid of our work, a hugely generous and wonderful act. He is rather like a pied piper and suddenly children appeared followed by their parents. Soon the hall was humming and children jigging and singing along...what colour is your t-shirt?, did-dig-dig like a mole, applause for the dinosaurs!
We made a clear profit of £700 and all money raised goes directly to our anti-poaching work, with no overheads. The current priorities are to buy new long-range radios, new boots for the 4 new rangers, night-vision goggles.
An enormous thank you to all who helped and came along. I hope to hold another event in early December.
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