Wild Nature Institute Delivers Giraffe Books and Posters to Thousands of Tanzanian Children

We are excited to report that the distribution of our giraffe-themed environmental education materials in Tanzania has been a resounding success. This month's distribution is a follow-up to the teacher’s workshop we hosted last October, where teachers received advance copies of our giraffe storybooks, activity books, and posters, and learned about lesson plans and activities to accompany the books and posters.

Thanks to Wild Nature Institute’s educational consultant, award-winning science teacher Lise Levy, and a terrific community organizer from our partner organization Masai Advancement Association (MAA), over the past month we have delivered a Swahili version of our Juma the Giraffe storybook and Juma poster, another poster about the amazing physiology of giraffes, and an activity book Twiga Na Rafiki Zake (Giraffe and Friends) to more than 4,600 children in 14 schools surrounding Tarangire and Lake Manyara national parks! We will be monitoring how the books and lesson plans are being used, and making more visits to the schools to help implement the fun learning activities.

The goals of our giraffe-themed environmental education project are:

1. to provide creative, beautiful, high-quality educational materials that use the giraffe to teach ecological and social lessons;
2. to build local support for community natural resource protection; and
3. to inspire the next generation of Tanzanians to work for conservation of their magnificent wildlife.