The Colobus Trust urgently needs to raise funds to buy new tyres for it’s workhorse, the Colobus Truck.
Our lovely white Ford Ranger was kindly donated to us by the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) and is perhaps the most essential tool we have. WPSA also kindly donate funds for the vehicle insurance, but not for new tyres.
It is used several times a day for an array of jobs including shopping for monkey food, the deployment of our field teams, for the transport of materials to fix our colobridges and most importantly for the rapid response to animal rescue calls. It really is essential to us, in every way. Below is a photo of a recent Sykes Monkey we released from the back of the truck.
Sadly during our financial crisis we have been focus on raising funds to keep our core projects running and now we are faced by the very real threat that our vehicle may be out of order. Yesterday we had the third puncture this month and the state of our tyres is appauling (see below).
We urgently need new tires to keep on doing all the good work we do. Without them the vehicle we will be crippled. To replace the tyres with those of the same type will cost a whopping KSh 21,000 per tyre (USD 267). Even the cheapest on the market will cost a total of KSh 49,000 (USD 623) for all 4 wheels, but with the off road driving required to reach some of our desnaring sites, we fear these will not be good enough.
Please donate generously and quickly! We are asking local garages to donate old tyres as a tempory measure but they will not last long.
Warm regards and thanks,
Gwili
Donations made here are
Mar 2nd Susan B USD 11.00
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Am really fortunate to be here for a few days and we had a wonderful stroke of luck. We bumped into Simon from Camp Kenya and he took one look at the tyres and told us to come to his office to pick up four second hand ones! As easy as that!! Thanks so much Simon for the early christmas present. That’s a big worry of the shoulders of the Trust