Please support Elephant Photo Fundraising
Phil Zappala a Director of Safari and Guide Services has kindly donated four photos of Elephants that he has taken in Chobe
National Park to a charity called ‘a life like lily’, set up by a young boy named Jack Chapman Lanting who goal is to raise
$NZ20,000 to donate to Elephant Nature Park Chang Mai Thailand, to help save the Asian Elephant from torture and neglect.
To read more of Jack’s story take a look at http://www.elephantphotofundraiser.com, also have a look the amazing photos that are for sale to help Jack reach his goal.
The Safari and Guide Botswana Team wishes Jack all the very best.
Latest News!!!!!
We are very pleased to finally be able to write to let you know how Jack got on with his photo fundraiser.
See below the email that was sent by Jacks family on behalf of Jack.
It’s taken all this time to finish up the event, get all the money in, photos to arrive at their destinations and to reach a final total which is $7982NZ. A huge success!!!!!
Selling 5 of your trunk prints helped make up that total and we are very grateful you allowed Jack the loan of your beautiful work……thank you from all of us, but especially Jack.
It’s been a massive undertaking and a big learning curve but it has all been worth it as we are off to Thailand on the 28th of October so Jack can save his elephant and bring him or her to the safety, freedom and dignity they will have at the Elephant Nature Park .
As you can imagine Jack is a very excited young man right now. His grand total is sitting at just over $17,000NZ and in the next few weeks with a garage sale, the sale of some of his paintings and a dinner/quiz night, we are very hopeful he will get to his goal of $20,000 in time.
It was a pleasure helping out with such a worthy cause and wish you all the very best, I hope that one day you can come out here
and see the wonderful sites that Botswana has to offer. Last night I had an elephant eat my sausage tree from over my fence, but
I enjoy every minute of it. We live and work in a truly wild place and it is a pleasure to see these wonderful creatures nearly everyday.