Blue-Eyed Boy, Happy Kids & Saving a Species

It’s been a long 3 months for the blue-eyed guy known as Number 20. After several surgeries to fix his broken leg, he finally gets to go back to his home in Tembisa, near Johannesburg. If he could speak, he’d be sure to express his gratitude to the Society for Animals in Distress (SAID), the organisation responsible for treating him.

Funding Update: The Grace Factory

We love partnering with The Grace Factory! So much so that we’re on our third Different.org / The Grace Factory project, which is almost fully-funded. The Grace Factory’s impact in Johannesburg is evident by the project’s popularity – thank you for your support! If you’d like to help us raise the remaining R4000 needed to get the project started, visit the project by clicking the button below.

Upcoming Project: Ripple Reading

We’re excited to be partnering with Ripple Reading! The organisation focuses on literacy and leadership development of children within disadvantaged communities. Learners with poor reading skills and identified behavioural problems are placed in a learning program focusing on visual, auditory and tactile perception development. Each child is also given coaching to develop themselves in the following areas: a firm identity, ethical orientation, strong social capacity, resilience to stress, and skills for successful achievement and leadership.

The Ripple Reading / Different.org project will fundraise for a qualified, retired and passionate teacher to teach children in the Ripple Reading program in Nooitgedacht Primary School, in the north of Johannesburg. More than 80 children will benefit from this programme.

Featured Photo: Wildlands

Following the death of the alpha female at Somkhanda Game Reserve due to snaring, the reserve was able to acquire a new female from the nearby Hluhluwe Game Reserve. Just before Christmas the female Wild Dog, which was being held in the Somkhanda Game Reserve boma, was released and joined the two males and pups from the Somkhanda Wild Dog pack.

Amazingly, the new female was instantly accepted by the pack, resulting in another success story for this community-owned game reserve.