I have set up a formal charity, the AMBUYA FOUNDATION, to take to a new level the work that a group of friends and I have been doing in Zimbabwe for the last ten years. Registered No. 1141004.

AMBUYA is Shona for grandmother.  It is the name given to me by the people of the Umfurudzi district in Mashonaland.

The vision of the AMBUYA FOUNDATION is to prove that wildlife can live in harmony with people in communal f arming areas. In doing so we want to improve, through wildlife conservation and tourism, their impoverished life of subsistence farming.

With Iain Jarvis and Lancelot Kajokoto, and many others, Ambuya has built one primary school and enlarged another so nearly 1,000 children can get good basic education.  We are now building a secondary school.

We have kept an authentic bushcamp afloat during times of hardship in Zimbabwe and are now restocking wildife in this amazing and historic wilderness area.  We have imaginative programmes in the local villages to reduce poaching of game and cutting of native trees - plus many self-sustainable projects which have asked for by the villagers.

The website is ready, and I can be reached for further information at

sally@AmbuyaInAction.org

Please visit www.AmbuyaInAction.org

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All good wishes to Aby lovers,      Sally Plummer