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NGALA PRIVATE GAME RESERVE, SOUTH AFRICA
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Ngala Private Game Reserve is committed to CC Africa's core principle: Care of the Land, Care of the Wildlife, Care of the People.
CC Africa’s focus: Community equity, income generation, education and health care are a primary concern. In consultation with community organisations such as the Africa Foundation – originally founded by CC Africa, now a not-for-profit rural development organisation – Ngala has initiated many successful community empowerment projects in the Welverdiend community surrounding the Reserve.
Ngala was the first private game reserve to be incorporated in the Kruger National Park, and the first three-way partnership between the private sector, the state and a non-governmental organisation (CC Africa, the WWF-SA (World Wildlife Fund – South Africa), and South African National Parks). Under this partnership, an annual lease, traversing fees and a percentage of Ngala’s profits are paid to the National Parks Trust, thus ensuring the long-term conservation of the land.
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NGALA COMMUNITY ACHIEVEMENTS :
- Building of a media centre and community computer centre at two schools in Welverdiend
- Implementing gutters and water tanks at Welverdiend Primary School
- Donating books, videos, stationery and a photocopier to the school’s library
- Sponsoring numerous hospitality education bursaries
- Siya Kwamukela student (sponsored by Moët & Chandon) in his third year of internship
- Implementing Edu-peg, a self-corrective early learning tool, at local primary schools
- HIV/AIDS awareness and education
- Ongoing conservation lessons and bush schools
- Coaching cricket and organising tournaments
- To celebrate World Environment Day, 220 school children were hosted at Ngala
- Distributing 985 Hippo Water Rollers in the community
- Implementing various income generation and small business development projects, such as a pig-farming enterprise and an African theatre group
- Commissioning work from local upholsterers, carpenters and plumbers
- Supporting a local transport entrepreneur who has since provided employment to five previously unemployed local residents
- Tracking school for community members run by Ngala’s senior trackers
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Ecotourism in Africa: Our guests play a critical role in helping CC Africa realise our dream and vision: to create a model in wise land management, integrating international travellers and rural people to their mutual benefit and demonstrating that wildlife can be preserved on a sustainable basis by all.
Positive Health Programme:
CC Africa strongly believes in its people and was recently listed as one of three finalists in the Investor in People category of the 2005 Tourism for Tomorrow Awards. The October 2005 edition of Africa Geographic featured an article on AIDS and conversation, and highlighted the activities and
programmes that various African companies are implementing in order to increase AIDS awareness and, in doing so, empower the communities taking
care of some of the world's richest wilderness regions.
"Probably the most attractive program ... is that of CC Africa... CC Africa launched a Positive Health program in 2003 and in April and May last year ran two seven-day courses.... Their approach focuses on home-based care, gardens, counseling techniques and gender issues.... The health of the
habitat is critical to the health of the individuals in it.... The conservation industry is uniquely positioned to take the treatment of
HIV/AIDS in radically new directions.... Benefits [of the program] include acquiring 'hard skills' such as maintaining clean water, producing food, and home-based methods of dealing with illnesses that are not life threatening.... It takes only the will of ecologically minded people to make
sure that the wild places are not lost."
Africa Geographic, October 2005
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