Useful links: for more information about Wechiau visit the NCRC site or the Calgary Zoo site
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We have just returned from a very successful visit to Wechiau Community Hippo Sanctuary where we met the scholarship students and visited their schools. We also saw the opening of a new primary school and took part with Calgary Zoo and others in the Durbar to celebrate 10 years of the Hippo Sanctuary. More information about our visit will be updated on this website soon.
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The Friends of Wechiau have completed its fourth year (2008/2009) of providing funding for scholarships and educational material. The students in Wechiau are now applying for the scholarships for 2009/10 after they have received their examination results and school placement offers . We are committed to supporting three new students each year, so that by 2010 we will be providing scholarships to 12 students for 4 years at senior secondary school. You can read more about our funding for previous years by clicking here. You can find out more about our decisions and reports and accounts here. We thank the Nature Conservation Research Centre (NCRC) in Ghana and the Calgary Zoological Society for providing the necessary resources to enable the funds to be disbursed and to assist with the scholarship selection process.
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Who we are:Earthwatch
volunteers who visited the Wechiau Community Hippo Sanctuary in November
2002 decided that they wanted to find ways to continue to support the
community. We set up a group and called ourselves Friends of Wechiau.
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The
Friends of Wechiau started
by previous Earthwatch volunteers donating money to fund educational scholarships.
Have you visited or volunteered at Wechiau Community Hippo Sanctuary and
would like to continue your support the project?
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We made our first donations
to Wechiau in the summer of 2005 by awarding one scholarship for a Adams
Yussif to attend senior secondary school and £100 towards educational
material for the school at Talawona. Adams Yussif with his grandmother and his mother (who is holding a photo of her late husband).
(photo thanks to Donna J Sheppard, Sanctuary Advisor, NCRC & Calgary Zoo) You can find out more about the
scholarships by visiting the scholarship
page.
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Wechiau Community Hippos Sanctuary Receive UN Equator Prize
On October 6, 2008, Wechiau Hippo Sanctuary received one of the top 25
initiatives awarded the
United Nations Equator Prize for 2008 (with a
$5,000 prize) and was among the top five to receive an additional
special recognition award from the United Nations (a The Equator Prize is awarded biennially to recognize and celebrate outstanding community efforts to reduce poverty through the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. The prize is designed to shine a spotlight on exemplary grassroots efforts in biodiversity conservation and poverty reduction. By celebrating local groups in international forums, the Equator Initiative works to share local best practices, celebrate success, and inform policy.
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| For more information your can contact us by
email at friendsofwechiau@yahoo.co.uk or you can contact us through facebook |
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Updated November 2009