Claudio for his donations, tireless support, hard work…. And pasta party! We are already looking forward to your next visit.
Our sincere gratitude goes to Bas, Monique and Riaan Doorduin for all of
their time and hard work for N/a‘an ku sê. They continue to dedicate a lot of their
time to marketing our project and without their help and enthusiasm we would not be where we are
today. A huge thank you from everyone at N/a‘an ku sê and we look forward to having you
back.
If you would like to fundraise or make a donation for our vital work with animals and children please email donationsnaankuse@iway.na
Our corporate sponsors
Thank you to all the companies and organisations who continue to donate much needed meat and
food to our carnivores, baboons and all the animals at the sanctuary including Trumpers, Fruit
& Veg and Chequers.
An outstandingly HUGE thank you to everyone at the Clabile Trust for their generous support
and belief in giving the San Bushman children at N/a'an ku sê access to a better,
brighter future. Your funds have made a huge difference through 'Clever Cubs' and we are all
extremely grateful. Extra special thanks to Rachel and Conrad Sharp for spending their holiday with us
painting, building and finishing the school. We LOVE it!
We are thrilled that Duty-Free News International has chosen to support our Lifeline Clinic
through their event in April. The funds you raise will have a life-changing effect on the work we
do and the people we can help through this primary healthcare outreach service.
Thank you so much for Burgland Charitas for their continued support to our work. The building
projects you are funding will make a real difference to the lives of the Bushman community at
N/a'an ku sê for which we are very grateful. Thank you for organising another container full
of essential items.
Expedition & Wilderness Medicine for supporting the work of our Lifeline Clinic. We're
looking forward to your visit next year!
Isotech for sponsoring Christina, Bettie, Sonja, Sofia and George and helping them get the
education they deserve.
Ann and André Barges and their companies Sarl Bac Development and B.R. Concept for
supporting our work with the San community at N/a’an ku sê. We hope you can come and visit
the children and families one day.
Chester Zoo for supporting our human-wildlife conflict project by donating the funds for two
GPS cell collars.
Air Namibia for generously donating six flights
Standard Bank for kindly donating six months funding for medicines for our Lifeline Clinic. This will enable us to continue treating the marginalised Bushman community in this remote area of Windhoek, for which we are very thankful.
Salvatore Ferragamo Italy for their extremely generous donation towards our Bushman village. We are very excited that the first new houses are now underway.
Bank Windhoek for their generous N$48,000 donation for a GPS satellite collar and a year of
downloadable information for our female leopard released on the 25 February 2009. Bank Windhoek
also kindly donated 16 desktops for the Bushman children who love them!
Ekkerd Van Wyk, his company, Novel Motor Company, and Land Rover Namibia for generously sponsoring
a brand new Land Rover for our carnivore research team to use.
Adelle Sameulson and her company BP Avgas who sponsored much needed fuel to transport our research
team to Namibrand as well as transporting our medical volunteers to the Lifeline Clinic.
The International Fire & Rescue Service (UK) who donated a "Green Goddess" Fire Truck and equipment.
The fire training provided by Davie Kay and Jim MacDonald (Scotland), both professional fire
fighters resulted in the formation of the N/a‘an ku sê Voluntary Fire Brigade. We would
like to thank Air Namibia for sponsoring Davie and Jim's flights to Namibia and to all those who
donated funds towards the shipping costs from the UK to Walvis Bay.
Our very grateful thanks to Conny Kayser for all her hard work updating the website and the many hours she has donated in order to produce such a brilliantly fast and easy to navigate site.
The Lifeline Clinic
On behalf of the Epukiro Bushman community, thank you to everyone who has donated funds for the
Lifeline Clinic and to help improve the lives of the Bushman. We hope that you can return one day to
see what a positive impact your funds have had.
Katie & Tony Maynard Smith, Kelly Faddis, Andrew Barrie, Frankie Wright Berdt Volz and Bas & Monique for all their generous donations.
Rita and Gerhard and RED DOG AUSTRIA BUSCHMANNHILFE for kindly donating children's clothes, medical items and a water recycling plant for the Bushman community in Epukiro
Mr Rembert Moenikes and the Airport Pad staff Germany for their fundraising efforts and donations for our Lifeline Clinic
Bas & Monique Doorduin, their local hospital Ziekenhuis Lievensberg, Sabic Helpende Hand & Sabic ARBO-dienst and the friends from their sports club, Rita & Gerhard Zazel, Burgland Charitas and to everyone who helped supply and ship the container of goodies we received last year.
Christine Nelson and John & Stephanie Loudenstack who donated funds to improve the living conditions for the Bushman in Epukiro.
Suzie Bachelor for buying fruit trees for the Lifeline Clinic which have not only provided food for the Bushman but has also helped to teach them how to grow their own food.
Anne Barrett (Ireland) who has provided funds for water tanks to give the Bushman in Epukiro their own water supply as well as funds to purchase medicines for the local children.
Paul & Carol Begin (Canada) who gave a very generous donation to improve the medical facilities and equipment at the clinic.
Christine Nelson (Ireland) who raised much needed funds for the Bushman Clinic by running a 10km race as well as hosting a cake sale. Your efforts are greatly appreciated.
De Helpende Hand of SABIC Innovative Plasics (Bergen op Zoom, The Netherlands) who donated a fridge and a water tank for our Lifeline Clinic as well as much needed school supplies for the Bushman children.
Wildlife conservation
On behalf of our feline friends that have been released back to the wild, thank you to everyone who
has been kind enough to donate funds to purchase collars and other equipment for our research
project. We hope that you are able to come back one day soon to help to track the lucky cheetah or
leopard that has freedom as a result of your kind donation.
Berndt Volz for kindly donating the funds for a VHF collar for a forthcoming release.
Sheila Heal for undertaking her 'run for freedom' to raise funds towards our leopard
Lightning's collar, ready for release.
Rowena Slater Ray for her continued support in donating the funds for a VHF collar. We hope to
release another big cat to freedom soon.
The wonderfully generous Tracey Dunstan for her latest donation for a GPS satellite collar. We
are extremely grateful for the difference you are making to our carnivore conservation work. It was
lovely to see you again.
Dorothea Huesmann for her kind donation to help the animals at N/a’an ku sê
Anne Barrett for her generous donation enabling us to purchase a VHF collar and release a big cat back to the wild.
Roy Owen and Jean who generously donated the funds for a VHF collar for our female cheetah who arrived in January 09 and can now be released as well as the money to purchase the special orthopedic shoes for Kanna. These will make a huge difference to Kanna's development.
Citigroup, Kirsty & Ian, Tracey, Frankie, and Tommie (Ireland) for their donations for a GPS collar which is firmly secured on the neck of the first leopard we have released as part of our Research programme.
Franchesca Washtell (UK) who provided much needed funds to complete the purchase of our latest GPS collar.
Our next GPS collar is dedicated to the loving memory of Tommie Strauss. Tommie left some funds to go to a worthwhile cause and we are both honoured and grateful that our "Large Carnivore Release Programme" has benefited from Tommie's generosity. We hope the beneficiary will be a male as we already know what his name will be….
Tracey Dunstan (Australia) for her very generous contributions which have enabled us to purchase two GPS collars.
Marta Mota (Portugal) has kindly donated funds for the purchase of a telescope which will be put to great use in NamibRand when we are tracking the cheetahs and leopards.
Dan Mortimer (UK) who kindly bought a rangefinder for the farm when he was here.
The wildlife sanctuary
On behalf of all the animals, and staff, on the farm, thank you to everyone who has donated money,
items and supplies to help us do the best we can for the animals in our care.
Annalise for buying a brand spanking new kettle and toaster for the volunteers
Thanks to Emma Hindson, Proctor & Gamble, Tub Trugs, and Likit for sending us horse supplies and equipment.
Thanks to all the volunteers and staff who pooled their funds together to build a new baboon camp for Peggy and her baby and those who donated for the larger baboon enclosure. Special thanks to Carol, Jo, Kate, Tony, John, Linda, Susan, Loeta, Sarah, Stephen, Aaron, and Caroline.
Mowgli's mum Uschi for our weekly supply of eggs, sweetcorn, nuts and raisins and the materials for our new baboon camp.
Matt Parken and his family (Canada) donated the funds for the volunteer swimming pool which is providing lots of enjoyment for the volunteers.
Graham Litchfield (England) who gave us money which we used to purchase tools for the farm. These tools played a very important part in the construction of our new volunteer housing.
Scott Irwin (USA) who bought an electric saw for cutting up the meat at food prep. Scott, not only is everyone on the farm grateful, but you have made life much easier for the volunteers on food prep.
Loeta & Susan (USA) who donated funds to buy some much needed brushes and tools for the wildlife project.
Mrs Owen and her friends (England) who held a barbecue to raise funds to buy chickens. The eggs from these chickens will be used as a major source of protein for our baboons.
Marie Leonard (Ireland) who donated a lap top which we will use in our office for research as well as marketing and fund raising activities.
Graham Litchfield (UK) who ran a 10km race (and survived!) in a very admirable time and raised funds to help us complete our new volunteer accommodation.
Annaliese for buying a much needed kettle and toaster for the volunteer area
Animal adoptions
Thank you to all our adoptive parents for their generous donations. We hop you can come out and
visit your adoptees sometime soon.
Dorothea Huesmann for adopting our celebrity star Lucky, she is growing up quickly so we hope you can visit her again soon.
Monique & the Doorduin family for adopting our young orphaned cheetah cub, Ayla. She can't wait to see you back at N/a'an ku sê!
Nicola Jervis for adopting our kind and gentle horse, Katya
Virpri Frindt & Nancy Lifset who have both adopted our crazy and colourful wild dogs, Kaleb & Liska
Sylvie Frateschi for adopting her namesake, our friendly Duiker, Sylvie
Tracy Day and Kevin Wake & his family for adopting our cheeky baby baboon, Marlin... we see the next Nemo! Hope you can all come and see him soon.
Julie Fairweather for adopting our little Duiker, Sylvie. She's a girl, no a boy, no a girl!
Paula Matthews and family for adopting lovely little Kayla as a birthday pressie for Leanne. Happy birthday!
Beate Zimny and her daughter Danielle for adopting our two orphaned little cheetah cubs. We hope you can come and see them whilst they still have their baby fur.
Peter Fourie for adopting beautiful caracal Cleo, the cheeky baby meerkat duo Frankie & Stein and powerful leopard, Duma for his family; daughters Ashley and Andrea and son Marc
Steve & Mandy Glasgow for adopting wild dog Kaleb and caracal Medusa - they can't wait to meet you in January!
Jonathan & Loretta Basson, Ernst, Adéle & Elsa Hertzog for adopting six of our beautiful wild young cheetahs; Cepheus, Tracey, Caesar , Co-Co , Milo & Nesquik. We hope you can all come to visit them soon.
Nurit Kaufmann for adopting our babies Sarafina, Troy and Bakkies on behalf of her children. We
hope you can all come back and visit them soon.
Crona Barrett for adopting Lucky on behalf of Adam and Sarafina on behalf of Katy - what lovely
presents, we hope they like their special children!
Candice Brockwell for adopting our ladies man, Bakkies; he's a lucky guy!
Our loyal volunteer Anna Wood for adopting her man, Nemo; come back soon
Dara Barrett for adopting her babies Mini and Toto for her sister Crona's birthday. Happy
birthday Crona!
Becca Smith for adopting our crazy baby Lala - she misses you lots.
Yolanda Wessels for adopting our celebrity friend, Lucky for 6 months
The lovely Lesley Citron Ross for adopting her big cat babies, Lucky and Samira for a year.
They and everyone can't wait to see you at N/a’an ku sê again very soon.
Emma Hindson for her generosity in adopting big baby Bloomie and our cheeky but lovable
Troy. They can't wait for you to come back again.
Maxine Walsh for kindly adopting our three legged cheetah Lucky on behalf of Gerry and Ethna Comaskey. Huge congratulations to Gerry and Ethna on their wedding!
Generous Ali Turner for adopting her favourite baboons; from the big Mowgli with whom she made a special bond to the tiny Sarafina.
The Barrett family who have been very generous; mum Anne has adopted our star Lucky and all eight cheetah cubs including Lucky's brother, for six months; sister Crona who has adopted beautiful Samira and our new caracal cub Yoda and Dara who has adopted handsome cheetah Aiko for six months as a present for her brother (Happy Birthday Gary!)
Former volunteer Sarah Stapleton who has adopted her favourite baboon Kayla; she would love to see you again.
Rowena Slater Ray who has adopted our celebratory and ambassador cheetah Lucky for six months;
Tanja Lecher who has adopted Medusa, one of our beautiful caracals. Medusa and all the caracals hope to meet you soon.
Past volunteer David Castle who has adopted the one and only Nemo. He hopes to see you back at N/a'an ku sê soon.
Sylvie Frateschi who has adopted our fluffy young ball of fur, little caracal Yoda. He's growing up quickly so come and see him soon.
The lovely Barbara Imgrund who has adopted our baby boy Bakkies. You're his first mummy so he's very lucky to have you.
Sheila Heal (UK) who has adopted our orphaned Leopard, Lightening, as a birthday present for her husband Les. Lightening is thrilled and hopes to meet you both soon.
Daniel Mortimer (UK) who has adopted lucky and lovable rogue baboon Jeffrey for the year. As his second adoptive parent, Jeffrey is going to be very spoilt.
Jacqueline Cadger and Sunderland YMCA who have adopted our new cheetah Samira and beautiful little baboon Sarafina. They are both delighted.
Holly Hadfield (UK) who adopted Bobby the baboon. As this is Bobby's first adoption he is speechless but very thankful.
Kirk Drinkwater (England) who adopted Jeffrey the baboon. This is Jeffrey's first official adoptive parent and we hope he has many more in the future. He is a very special baboon and we have nicknamed him Houdini for obvious reasons.
Roy Owen (England) who adopted Frank, our African wild cat, on behalf of his niece Stephanie Kyriacou. This is the first time that Frank has been adopted so he is very grateful.
The Big Cat holding camps
Thanks to everyone who has taken up the Big Cat challenge to raise the funds we need to build
bigger new holding camps for wild leopard and cheetah including:
Janus Brandt, Rita Frank, Ian Baines, Harold Pupkewitz, Ekkerd van Wyk, Cameron Kotze,
Dr Albertyn, Rudiger Reichstein, Rudiger Reichstein, Mrs Basson, Deon van Rensburg,
Ian Smith, Faan, Burger, Nico Brand, Mrs Basson, Yvonne Koopman, Giovanni Del Vecchio,
Lesley Deitenbach, Kelly Faddis, Monica Cserei, Tracey Dunstan, Holly Hadfield,
Rosemarie Field, Bernd Volz, Sheila Heal, Lucy Hale, Julie Ryan, Johanna Andreani, Anna Wood,
Natalie Goodyer, Hazel Gallagher, Nathan Gilderson, Dean Hanson, Val Wormley, Nancy Milner,
Howard Lizst, Anne Barrett, Phil Wormley, Mike Dornan, Julie Dudman, Caroline Walkley,
Edna Barrett, Ellie Guttman, Helen Solomon, Angharrad Sutton, Camilla Bellamy, Hiram Venier,
Alisa Kubala, Lucia Scarborough, Annabel Burns, Anthony Robson, Crona Barrett, Anna Clifford,
Susan Brier, Lesley Citron-Ross, Stephen Heal, Emma Hindson, Christina Cioppi,
Tessa von Luedinghausen, Judith Robson, Dave Smail, Nicole Messner, Daniel Mortimer,
Tracy Dixon, Keith Smith, Julie Lester, Creative Branding/Chrizaan Mosterd, Menini Gibbens,
Arno Mouton, Mossie/Corlia Mouton, Louis Dry, Duan Jansen, Toby van Zyl, Dana Vogt,
Dara Barrett, David Robson, Barbara Newman, Eleanor, Scully, Keith Betteridge.
Bas, Monique and Riaan Doorduin
Sabine Pfeiffer
Lesley Citron-Ross
Anton Pretorius
Kim Mazzoni
Hazel Gallagher
All our volunteers who enjoyed and participated in our fundraising lodge night in August
including David, Lee & Lisa for generously bidding for our star auction prize and contributing to
the fund.
The San (Bushman) children and community
Our thanks to everyone who has sponsored our Bushman children; they are thrilled with all the
exciting things that are happening. We hope you can all come out and meet the children and see
the difference you are making to their lives.
Ruth Hepworth who is sponsoring Mavis
Noreen & Kelly Appleby who is sponsoring our young girls Bettie and Martha
Annabel Burns who is sponsoring Jessica
Marilyn Castle and Renault Formula F1 for donating some very nice tracksuits, shorts and t-shirts for our Bushman, they look fantastic!
Dan Mortimer and Sandy Wienberg & Kurt-Schwitters-School for all their hard work in fundraising and helping us to build a brilliant fun playground for the children at 'Clever Cubs'. The children are very grateful.
Bruno Frateschi & Candice for donating the funds for special new 'Clever Cubs' t-shirts for all the children - they really hope you can come and visit them soon.
Rembert Moenikes and Kelly Faddis for their kind donations
Paulo Tatini for enabling us to build a new house in our Bushman village
Pam Dunston, Caroline Walkley, Ruth Essam, Anne Barrett, Sverre Isaksen & Julie Lester for buying their Christmas gifts through our ethical gift list and supporting our Bushman children and families
Svenja, all at Wilde-Eend and everyone who supported our radio campaign
Louise Campbell, Noel Jackson, Pam McNally and the very kind Green Croft Knitting circle for equipping the clever cubs with heaps of great new toys, games and educational resources
Ekkerd van Wyk for generously donating the materials to enable us to build 4 houses for our Bushman workers and families.
Annie Cimador for sponsoring Kanna
Loris Bellami, Mr Riccardo Adamo, Mr Oliver Montane for donating the funds which will make a
real difference to the children and families at N/a’an ku sê.
Annie & Stephen Cimador for sponsoring little Lisa - she can't wait to meet you!
Marina and Carlotta Rossini for their recent visit and donations towards our work with the San
community. The children loved meeting you.
Dan Mortimer for his commitment and dedicated to our Bushman appeal; for suggesting donations
in lieu of birthday presents and his continued fundraising efforts. We hope you are able to come
back soon to see the Bushman and your adoptee Jeffrey.
Mr Giovanni del Vecchio for sponsoring George and helping cover the cost of his Epilepsy treatment.
Tony Foran for jumping out of a plane to raise funds for our work with the San village - we're glad
you made it!
Everyone who donated and attended Claire Wormley's pub quiz and raised funds for the San
community at N/a’an ku sê.
Robert Gaggiolo
Bruno Fratescho and his Girlfriend Candice who are generously sponsoring Kanna, Anna, Jessica and Corruption as well as Andi for their mum, Sylvia
Beatrice Zanchi who is sponsoring little Deshi
Vincenzo Equestre who is kindly sponsoring Josephine, Christina, Sofia, Willem and Dina
Ms Tanja Lecher for sponsoring beautiful little Regina
Karine who is sponsoring Christian
Nadia Grippiolo who is sponsoring Caitriona
Our biggest thanks go to Jill Robson and Sarah Harding for all the time, hard work and energy they put in to planning a new curriculum for the Bushman school. The difference and improvement in the children since February is amazing.
Our thanks and gratitude also go to Jill for extending her stay and implementing the changes. You should be incredibly proud of your achievements and the difference you have made to these children's lives. We know the children miss you massively and can't wait for you to come back.
Claudio and Sylvie Frateschi, Mr Ferragamo and Ferragamo Co and Mr Roberto Gaggioli for their generous donations towards our work with the Bushman children and the development of our school. The children love their new games and are having great fun learning scrabble and twister. We have also been able to buy Kanna and his sister Jessica some new outfits which they were in desperate need of. Thank you for all the work you are doing talking to people about what we are trying to achieve to gain support. We hope you are able to come out and visit N/a‘an ku sê and all the children again soon.
Ray Owen and Jean for donating the money to purchase the special orthopedic shoes for Kanna. These will make a huge difference to Kanna's development.
Mr Ferruccio Ferragamo for his kind donation towards the Bushman village buildings which are now underway.
Ali Turner for her generous $5000 donation which will go a long way in improving the lives of the Bushman community on the farm. We can't wait to see you again soon.
Claudio for all his donations and treats for the children including the lovely new fleeces which will keep them warm during the cold winter nights and mornings. The children miss you lots.
Dankie, van al die kinders en diere op N/a‘an ku sê
Thank you, from all the children and animals at N/a‘an ku sê
