{"id":1960,"date":"2010-08-16T10:29:31","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T10:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/?p=1960"},"modified":"2010-08-21T16:03:39","modified_gmt":"2010-08-21T16:03:39","slug":"chimpanzee-eden-with-the-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/?p=1960","title":{"rendered":"Chimpanzee Eden with the children"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"WatchingToday we went to Chimpanzee Eden with some of the older children from Letaba school.\u00a0 Chimpanzee Eden is a Jane Goodall institute<\/a>. It is the first and only chimpanzee sanctuary in South Africa and takes in chimpanzees that have been misplaced from their natural habitats, abused and used in circus’s etc.<\/p>\n

Phillip, the director of the sanctuary helped us to make the visit possible for some of the children who were very keen on having the experience of meeting the chimpanzees, Phillip and hearing about the sanctuary and some of the things that they did there.<\/p>\n

\"PhillipWe were also very keen to visit with the children because of the link to the children’s book, ‘My sanctuary, a place called \"Ahome’\u00a0 written by Doreen Ingram,<\/a> who has visited the sanctuary on many occasions.\u00a0 She wanted to write a book that explained in detail some of the chimpanzees stories that could be understood by children, and at the same time, educating people about chimpanzee conservation.<\/p>\n

This book has been used by Yebo and the children that we work with, and has been a great help to some of our activities. We have been in touch with Doreen a lot who has also been very supportive of our work with book donations and encouragement.\u00a0 We are very thankful to Doreen for writing such a great book and for the support and help.<\/p>\n

\"TalkingThe children that we chose to go to the sanctuary were more, able bodied older children, who we picked due \"Allto their understanding, but also their commitment to helping us as volunteers with the younger children that we have been working with over the past 2 weeks.\u00a0 They have also been a great support to us in our work, and are very resposible young people, despite their disabilities.\u00a0 They are learners at Letaba school, very good friends and supportive of eachother, and very accepting of their disabilities.\u00a0 One of the learners that we took had very poor eye site but could still see the chimpanzees when closer to the enclosures.\u00a0 He also said he liked listening to the sound of their different calls, panthoots etc! He was taking pictures of them on his mobile phone and was very responsive to watching them, despite his eyesite problems.\u00a0 The other learners also enjoyed the visit and had a lot of questions for Phillip.<\/p>\n

They also compared some of the differnt personalities of the chimpanzees to some of the children that they know at the school, and found this very funny.\u00a0 They were also interested to hear that the chimpanzees were all orphans and were being looked after in this sanctuary.\u00a0 We also compared some of the cheekiness and fighting of the chimps to their school sometimes.<\/p>\n

We thank Phillip, Doreen and all those who made it possible for us to bring the children and our volunteers to the sanctuary for the day.\u00a0 We are now looking into sponsorship for the school to bring more of the learners here on a regular basis, and to help them with their education and self esteem.<\/p>\n

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Learners fro Letaba school visit Chimpanzee Eden, with some of our volunteers, learning about the lives, personalities and behaviours of the different chimpanzees, as well as talking about their chimpanzee book, ‘My sanctuary, a place I call home’ by Doreen Ingram which relates to the aims of Yebo. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1960"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2004,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions\/2004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yeboyes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}