Colobus Trust is celebrating its 10th Anniversary this year. To start our celebrations we invited all of the schools that we work with in this area to enter a poetry / essay writing / picture competition. We held the prize giving afternoon for this competition yesterday. Nine schools came with about 150 kids in totals, so we held all of the activities on the front lawn by the beach, where we have lots of space. Some of the schools had prepared songs for the day, which they performed for everyone. Then we presented the prizes. There were three competition categories – pictures, essays and poems – each with themes related to monkeys / trees / nature in general / conservation. The first prize winners won a school bag with a set of stationery inside (notebook, biros, colours, geometry set, sharpener, rubber, pencil)., and wildlife jigsaws for their wildife clubs. The second and third prize winners got a stationery set each. After prize giving we cut a huge 10th anniversary cake for the Trust, and finished off the day with an out-of-control football match on the beach with all children, teachers, volunteers and Colobus staff members involved! We had two broken toes by the end but everyone had a great time!
Donations made here are
Mar 2nd Susan B USD 11.00