About N/a'an ku sê Foundation
Marlice van Vuuren, one of Namibia’s most well known conservationists, and her husband Dr. Rudie van Vuuren started N/a’an ku sê Foundation in 2006 with two aims – to protect and conserve Namibia’s vulnerable wildlife and to improve the lives of the marginalised San Bushman community. We now run several projects including:
Supporting African Wildlife
- Our Wildlife Sanctuary provides a safe home for orphaned and injured animals who sadly cannot be released back into the wild
- Our Carnivore Conservation Research Project researches and protects threatened wild cheetahs, leopards and brown hyena.
Supporting the marginalised San Community
- Our Clever Cubs School provides free education for San Bushman children.
- Our Lifeline Clinic provides free healthcare to the San Bushman community in Epukiro.
Our philosophy is "Conservation through Innovation" and we strive to create sustainable and long-term solutions. It is our vision to play a pro-active role in nature conservation because we believe that we hold this invaluable heritage in our trust for future generations. We cannot undo what has been done... but we can shape our future.
We do not receive any government funding and are solely reliant on generous donations, ecotourism and the time of volunteers to continue our vital work to help the people and animals of Namibia. By visiting our unique Lodge, Neuras Estate or Volunteering at one of our projects, you can help to make our vision a reality. All profits from our activities go directly to benefit our work with wildlife conservation and the San Bushman community.
We’re a small but dedicated team - ambitious and innovative and we won’t ever stop until we achieve our vision.
To find out more about us, watch our TV programme Wild Animal Orphans on Animal Planet, join our Facebook page or visit our You Tube page to watch video clips of our work.
- Map of N/a'an ku se Projects
