The highlight of their stay is the game drive. For most if not all of these children it is the first time they have ever been inside the national park that is on their doorstep and a chance to see the amazing wildlife that lives there. Seeing the excitement on their faces as they witness elephants bathing or giraffe feeding was fantastic.
Times have been very hard for the population here and you can understand the desire to go and get meat for their families but we have to look to the future and the sustainability of all our actions. PDC is not only helping to spread the word to the next generations but is also giving local people an alternative today with all of its community projects that I will tell you about in my next blog...