Donations received

School raises $400 for Lion Guardians

We are delighted to say that the cake sale organised by the children of Westbury House School in the UK was extremely successful and raised £211 (about US$400) for the Lion Guardians! We are all really grateful for their hard work and fundraising. Your donation will make a big difference! It will go towards helping…

Thank you!

We would like thank you for your donations over the last few weeks. Our heartfelt thanks go out to Jessica F, Dana J, Richard V (who is sponsoring Lion Guardian Ritei), Hashi H and Lisa R. Special thanks also to Linda D for her generous donation of $900. Thank you so much. We have also…

Photos of Kapande

As you heard yesterday, we recently held the monthly Lion Guardians meeting. All the Lion Guardians attended the meeting, even Kapande, who has been very ill recently. Looking at Kapande now, I just canâ??t believe that this is the person I knew two months ago. His fingers look longer than usual, his ears that used…

Picture this..

As we were driving I saw this on a moving â??bill boardâ?. ‘Heshimu Punda’ means respect a donkey. It was on the spare wheel cover of a car in front of us. Then I started thinking: we have the situation in Kenya right now after the election violence where people are in dire need of…

Donations received, Maasai songs and webpages

Hello everyone, We have good news: the Lion Guardian program now has a new webpage about the project and another webpage with pictures, Maasai songs, and interviews from each Guardian. They are new pages, we hope to add more to them so please give us your ideas and suggestions. You can reach the new pages…

End of Field Work

The long rains are here with us once more. This is when traveling becomes a nightmare, field work cannot be done until the rains are over. Though researchers and people trying to travel in cars are limited by the rains, the livestock owners are now the happiest people on earth. Water has become a thing…

Kapande’s surgery

Kapande is now out of danger. He was taken to the theatre (operating room) yesterday at 3:30pm and came out at 6:15am. I am going to visit him this morning and see how he has been for the night. Then I will head back to Mbirikani. Thanks to everyone for all your support and prayers.…