Wild Shots Outreach is an award winning NPO, with its most recent accolade being the International Gold Award from The Global Good Awards (2020). It is an immersive experience through which young adults from disadvantaged communities get to appreciate wildlife and wild places through the lens of a camera.

This experience goes some way to facilitating conversations around conservation, and hopefully shaping mindsets of the next generation of environmental stewards.

We are working closely with the Wild Shots Outreach initiative. Every year they run workshops at some of our camps. This initiative engages with unemployed youth, teaching them about conservation and nature through photography.

Apart from a better understanding and appreciation of wildlife and conservation, the objective of this initiative is to develop self-confidence, self-esteem, life skills and, of course, photographic skills.

In 2022, Wild Shots Outreach’s Programme Director, Rifumo Mathebula, won the international CIWEM “Youth Environmentalist of the Year” and Mail & Guardian Greener Futures” Award. These prestigious awards recognise ‘passionate, proactive individuals actively working towards positive environmental change with lasting impact.’

Wild Shots Outreach recently ran three workshops at our camps – Sable Alley, Planet Baobab, Jacks Camp and Meno a Kwena. For all the participants this was the first time they had ever been on a game drive, let alone photographed a wild animal! More recently we have expanded this partnership into Namibia. Guests who wish to help this initiative can donate cameras on their next safari.

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