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PAY US A VISIT!
We would be delighted to welcome you here. We can arrange for you to see the gorillas in the Kahuzi-Biega National Park, and we will take you on a tour of our community projects in the area. You could even plant a tree!
Please see our ‘Tourism’ page.
If you’d like to make a longer trip Wild Frontiers Adventure Travel, who are based in London, will be happy to help you. Click HERE.
MAKE A DONATION
Involving the local communities in the active conservation of the Kahuzi-Biega National Park is crucial to the protection of the wonderful array of species which call it home, including the rare Eastern Lowland Grauer’s Gorilla.
To achieve this, the Pole Pole Foundation has initiated many projects with the communities which live on the Park boundaries.
Education is at the heart of everything that the Pole Pole Foundation does. We have built a kindergarten, a primary and a secondary school. Future generations will grow up knowing the value of the natural resources that surround them and with an education which will give them options in life. The Pole Pole Foundation sponsors some children through school - those whose parents cannot afford to pay. Sometimes the brightest pupils will be given funding to further their studies at university level.
By spreading environmental awareness to the communities surrounding the Park, and working with them, we hope to be creating conservationists of the future. By giving people training and employment opportunities, we will end their reliance on the Park for its natural resources.
The Kahuzi-Biega National Park is part of the Congo Basin Forest, the second largest tropical forest in the world. Second only to the Amazon. Together, they are 'the lungs of the world'. Their conservation is important to us all. When you support our efforts, you are supporting the conservation of this hugely-important, and utterly beautiful corner of the planet.
HOW TO DONATE
ONLINE DONATION
From any country you can donate us via our BT MyDonate page. All funds sent to POPOF UK are passed on in their entirety to POPOF in the DR Congo.
If you are a UK tax payer, you will be given the option to ‘Gift Aid’ your donation.
Click HERE.
This makes a real difference to us. Thank you!
Cheques to POPOF UK
You can also send cheques to the POPOF UK. All the funds will be sent to POPOF DR Congo.
Address: The Pole Pole Foundation UK, 34 Church Meadow, Surbiton, Surrey, KT6 5EW, UK
All cheques should be made payable to "The Pole Pole Foundation UK".
Any UK taxpayers can increase their donations by 25% if they fill in a Gift Aid form, which you can download from here.
BANK TRANSFER
INQUIRIES
PROJECT COSTS
The Pole Pole Foundation needs funding to run its various projects, and greatly appreciates the support of friends from all around the globe. Any donation is gratefully received. Below is a list of some of the costs involved, to show you how our money is spent.
ENVIRONMENT
Tree planting scheme
The tree plantations are an important part of what POPOF does, because they provide wood for fuel, building materials, and artisanal carving for the local communities. Which means people don’t have to resort to going into the rainforest for resources - which is not only illegal, but completely counter-productive to the conservation of the Kahuzi-Biega National Park and its special fauna and flora.
Since 1993, POPOF has overseen the growing and planting of over 4 million trees. Which is an amazing feat.
Just think how much of the rainforest that has saved.
£10 funds the planting of 40 trees.
EDUCATION
Primary School
Secondary School
University
Skills and Training
FOOD AND NUTRITION
FUTURE PROJECTS
With funding, there is much more that we can do. As well as growing the projects which are already up and running, in the future, we hope to start a ‘Women’s Empowerment Program’, a Bee Keeping initiative, a mushroom growing project, a soap making workshop, and much much more.
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