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Rangers walk for a living. At a rhino ceremony with KWS at Lake Nakuru, the foundation gave them boots, and it has kept asking what else they need.
02About this project
A ranger's job is walking. Patrols cover long distances over rough, wet, thorned ground, day after day, and boots wear out faster than they are replaced. In September 2020, at a rhino ceremony held with the Kenya Wildlife Service at Lake Nakuru National Park, the foundation and the Stand Up Shout Out team handed boots to the rangers there, to make the work possible and to thank them for keeping the park's rhinos, and all its wildlife, safe.
The gesture came out of time spent alongside them. Through the foundation's many days of clean-up work in Nairobi National Park, rangers led the volunteers, kept them safe and worked beside them, while their colleagues stayed out on the patrols that protect the park's rhinos. That watch has kept the sanctuary free of rhino poaching for over seven years. What rangers need is best learned from rangers, and the foundation has kept asking.
The answers have shaped everything since. In June 2022, twenty Kenya Wildlife Service rangers were honoured at Nairobi National Park and given twenty powerful rechargeable torches, which they had specifically asked for to strengthen their night operations. The same instinct, followed further, became the foundation's Dignity Housing Project.