| Ngamba Island recognized with Vocational Service Award |
The Rotary Club of Entebbe has awarded Chimpanzee Trust with the ‘Vocational Service Award 2014- 2015’, as the best vocational service for its extraordinary projects in providing services to communities neighbouring Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary. This was during Rotary Club of Entebbe’s 20th anniversary celebrations.
Since the establishment of Ngamba Island in 1998, Chimpanzee Trust has worked with communities neighbouring the sanctuary in areas of environment conservation, health, entreprise development, education and sanitation to improve their livelihoods. With support from partners we have carried out health and sanitation sensitisation, extended clinic days for dental care and HIV/AIDS testing and counseling, carried out safe male circumcision, built a school and extended clean water among others.
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Chimpanzee Trust staff scoops prestigious award
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| Byron meets Dr. Jane Goodall |
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| Byron Ssemambo, a Caregiver at Chimpanzee Trust/ Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary has won the coveted Charles Southwick Conservation Education Commitment Award 2015 from the International Primatology Society. He was recogonised for making a difference in formal and informal conservation education.
For the last 7 years Byron is one of the educators that has been at the fore front of conservation education at the sanctuary; guiding more than 36 school groups, 1500 local community visitors and 4500 international visitors to the sanctuary each year. His exceptional interpretative guiding and birding skills undoubtedly make him one of the best educators at the sanctuary.
The Charles Southwick Conservation Education Comittment Award recognises individuals living in primate habitat countries that have made a significant contribution to formal and informal conservation education in their countries. The amount of the award is $1,000: $750 given directly to the recipient and $250 given in the recipient’s name to a project of their choosing in their community. |
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