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25.01.2022 Imagine if every traveller had the same generous, outward-looking perspective as Katrina Peall. Fortunately for me, almost every one of my guests have been similar. This is why they're now lifelong friends and a few have returned for multiple trips. People like this make the world a better place.

25.01.2022 A cut & paste from the Ferny Grove High School newsletter. Throughout the Year, nine Year 10 students currently studying Graphics and Design have been designing and creating two different projects to help make life easier in Humani, a small African village located in Zimbabwe. The students have worked on the following two projects this year:... Men from the village go out for days at a time. They camp out in the national parks to save their native wildlife from poachers. They sleep on the ground and only have a small amount of food and water. To help these men, the students designed a stretcher bed. This will keep them off the ground, providing more comfort, and keeping them safe from insects and arachnids. The second project is a trivet. A trivet is a three-legged mechanism that is placed over a fire to support cooking pots. The students designed the trivet to help the people in the village cook their meals by creating a flat sturdy surface to ensure that the food does not spill from the pot. To avoid the logistical problems of having to transport ready-made items, the projects will go over to Humani with the students Graphics teacher, Mr. Bailey, and Michael Jeh from Barefoot in Africa, who coordinates the Humani village charity work. Mr Bailey will be teaching the men from the village how to re-create these designs from locally sourced materials. This project is extra-curricular and the students are very proud of the designed products. On Mr Baileys return, the students will assess the impact of their designs on daily life for the families in Humani. Over the last couple of years, FGSHS students have also raised money for and donated clothing and equipment to the families in Humani. Michael Jeh has provided the following information to show where our fundraising has been going: Zimbabwe is going through a severe drought at the moment. This is having a knock-on effect on the wildlife because it is being poached at record levels to feed hungry villagers. So we're doing the following: Every family in Humani is going to receive a "survival pack" consisting of basic necessities like flour, rice, sugar, soap etc. More than 200 families will receive these packs. In a literal sense, they will be lifesavers for humans and wildlife alike. I have bought the school a multi-function copier/printer so they can print off exam papers and teaching resources. New school buildings will continue to be built and existing classrooms upgraded and repaired. Game scouts (anti-poaching team) will be kitted out with new uniforms and boots. Wildlife orphanage will receive food, medicines and infrastructure to cope with the huge influx of wild animals being rescued due to drought and poaching. Further fundraising for Humani will take place at the Interact Clubs Trivia Night on October 28.

25.01.2022 This wonderful little chap, Hunter, in 3P at Ferny Grove State School, collected pocket money in his tin for months to give to his teacher (Miss Peall) to put towards a good cause at Humani. The tin made it safely to Humani School where the African kids were overjoyed to learn that the money was used to provide feed (grass) for animals like these elephants who are struggling to find enough food during the terrible drought. Hunter's big heart (and big tin!) has literally saved lives in Africa. From the buffaloes, elephants and the other animals at Humani who are now eating the food that you provided...thank you Hunter.

23.01.2022 Only a few days now till I'm in Kruger. This story will make me treasure every rhino sighting we have. http://www.wildcard.co.za/wild-shots-undercover-heroines/

23.01.2022 Etosha has always been great for big cat sightings. No different this time...cheetahs everywhere.

22.01.2022 Baby pictures - cheetah, hyena and rhino.

22.01.2022 To put the icing on the cake for this year, a big THANK YOU to Angela Dawes, teacher at Ferny Grove High School who galvanised her students to raise $500 for Humani (at Enterprise Day).

21.01.2022 Katrina Peall (teacher extraordinaire) in action at Humani School. Coke bottle (science) experiments, classroom activities and lots of fun in the Year 3 class. She may never return to Ferny Grove State School - they've fallen in love with her at Humani. The desks we donated a few years ago can be seen, still in good condition.

16.01.2022 On safari with John & Marlen Duus...didn't see much all day and they never complained. And then as dusk was falling, Kruger rewarded them. John was ever-so-slightly nervous as they both walked past his open window within touching (biting) range!

14.01.2022 Humani is not the only worthwhile project we support. My beautiful friends from Perth were on hand recently to hand over a new fridge and other donations to the wildlife rehabilitation centre we are partnered with in South Africa. These guys take in orphaned or injured wildlife and keep them safe until they can be re-introduced into the wild (or given a safe home). Thanks to everyone whose generosity helped us to make this happen. The jackal was given the official task of saying "thank you" - a sloppy kiss!

14.01.2022 Etosha National Park in Namibia continues to be a place of wonder. It is also can be a place of sadness, life and death interwoven together in battles ancient and primeval. We saw this black rhino at 6 pm, de-horned to make it less of a target for poachers. Sadly, that also reduces their defences against natural enemies. A few hours later, a big pride of lions (with 4 males) brought down this rhino, a task made easier perhaps because it had no sharp horn to defend itself. It is so, so rare to see a rhino taken down by lions. The sadness was tinged with a sense of awe to see it unfolding in front of us.

14.01.2022 A wildlife story from Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park. Probably happened at night. Just goes to show that even lions habituated to humans in a national park change character totally after dark. http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/zimbabwe-pride-of-lions-ki/

14.01.2022 If humans can poach a rhino in a French zoo, how much harder must it be to try and protect rhinos in the wild in Africa? No wonder the folk at Humani are always grateful for any help in combating this awful scourge. They protect these animals across vast areas with limited resources and yet, Western zoos struggle to do the same with all their resources. No easy solutions - all we can do is continue to support Humani as best we can. http://www.abc.net.au//rhinoceros-killed-for-horn-/8334798

13.01.2022 Despite the drought, the wildlife at Humani continue to hang in there, thanks mainly to the huge sacrifices and contributions from the Whittall family who own the property. Organisations like us get credit for the "fly in, fly out" donations we bring in but the real work is underpinned by the custodians of the land who do it 24/7/365 on a scale that makes our work pale into insignificance. They are constantly providing feed, water, repairing fences, employing game scouts, feeding the families...the list is endless. Here are a couple of highlights from our time at Humani, watching the wild animals who continue to be protected even under extreme duress.

13.01.2022 A little article in The Hills Echo (Northwest Brisbane) to highlight the great work done by Ferny Grove State High School to support Humani last year. Making plans to visit Humani again this year with more projects and donations in mind...

13.01.2022 If only the internet was as reliable as the consistently good wildlife sightings in Kruger and surrounding private game reserves. Just completed a magical 10 days with my friends from Perth. Some of the best pictures may have to be uploaded in small blocks if wifi can't cope with big file sizes.

12.01.2022 Humani School were delighted to hear that they may have a new sister school in Brisbane. The Humani kids can be seen here proudly wearing the uniforms from Ironside State School (St Lucia) on our recent visit to Zimbabwe. They loved the uniforms so much that I saw these same kids wearing it to school the next day too - the Principal turned a kind eye and did not issue them with a uniform breach notice!

11.01.2022 Some cracking predator moments from South Africa. The prolonged drought means the grazers are doing it tough but the big cats and hyena are feasting on weakened prey species. It's the perennial circle of life in Africa - drought, flood, fire and new life. Our last day in Africa showed hints of the rains to come with a spectacular thunderstorm. Even the lions' roars were overshadowed by the fierce thunder.

11.01.2022 This story has a close link to Barefoot in Africa as Brutus was released just after we visited Humani in Oct 2016. Joanna Main especially fell madly in love with Brutus and is no doubt delighted that he has been successfully re-introduced into the wild.

10.01.2022 To all those Barefoot in Africa supporters who have done their bit to help us help Humani, please enjoy this beautiful film. And thank you! I just wish I could call this place home! Makes my heart ache to return to Humani...

09.01.2022 With safety always a first priority, encountering any of the Big 5 on foot is a highlight of any Barefoot in Africa safari. I've never encountered a more enthusiastic client than Tim Bailey who was up for any adventure, even diving headfirst into a thorn bush to avoid a rampaging black rhino. No time for a photo on that occasion but there were more sedate moments that were captured on camera. It is a magical feeling to be this close, on foot, to elephant and rhino.

09.01.2022 A delightful way to start the New Year with this whimsical piece from the most recent Barefoot trip to Africa...

09.01.2022 The teachers from Humani School with the solar lights. A very big thank you to Barefoot in Africa and Ferny Grove State school for this donation. These lights will help them with the marking at night.

08.01.2022 It's nice to be able to provide our sister school in Zimbabwe with some resources to actually help with educational outcomes. Thanks to the generosity of Barefoot's friends all over the world, we were able to present the school with this multi-function copier/printer last month. This will help the teachers with mass producing exams, work sheets and staffing resources. It will also save time because they won't keep having to go into town (50k's away) for their routine printing and copying needs. We take these things for granted at any Australian school but for Humani School, this is a technology revolution!

08.01.2022 Missing Liane's Lions already - they'll bring a smile to Cape Town I'm sure...beautiful people who always looked for the best in everything, hence this rewarding sighting in Sabi Sands which rarely fails to deliver brilliant leopard interactions. Off to Humani today with the next group of dear friends who fly in this morning. More adventures to follow...Barefoot in Africa!

07.01.2022 Roadblocks in Kruger and Sabi Sands are things we got used to this week. Damn animals - always getting in the way of traffic! How am I supposed to get to work on time? Oh that's right...this is my office...almost forgot I had the best job in the world.

05.01.2022 When humans and wildlife compete, humans tend to win. And the human race are the ultimate losers. We'll be in Namibia soon where the lions in Etosha are plentiful but even in protected parks, nothing can be guaranteed.

05.01.2022 Our friends at Humani are in the midst of a severe drought with crop failures and acute food shortages. Theyre doing it really tough. Ignored, it will inevitably lead to hunger, disease or an upsurge in poaching for bush meat. Thanks to your donations, weve been lucky enough to provide every Humani family with a ration (survival) pack to tide them over till the rains (hopefully) arrive soon. Katrina Peall and Tim Bailey, teachers from Ferny Grove Primary/High School are pictured handing out some of the goodies to the Humani folk (and the orphaned cape buffalo calf). Thank you to everyone, individuals and organisations alike, who helped to make this happen. Special thanks to Adrienne and Mark at Humani who went to enormous trouble to pull all the logistics together.

04.01.2022 Wildlife photos from Humani attached now tp go with previous post. I deleted them by accident thanks to superior computer skills!

04.01.2022 The Interact Club at Ferny Grove State High School continue to raise the bar. Their annual trivia night event, now in it's fourth year, raised more than $1300 for Humani projects. The 'spirit' of the night was exemplified by the winners, the maths teachers of FGSHS, who promptly donated their prize back into the kitty to raise more funds! That gesture said it all really. The highlight this year was hearing first-hand about the great work that Tim Bailey was able to do on the ground in Humani in October. It's the first time a teacher has personally experienced the beauty and hospitality of the good folk (and wild beasts) of Humani. Thank you Ferny Grove High School (again!).

04.01.2022 Just dropped off a few "gifts" to a wildlife orphanage project that Barefoot in Africa supports in South Africa. Huge thanks to the generosity of those who helped to fill up my suitcase. A special thanks to Joanna Main and Ness & Greg Bradley who went out of their way (no surprises there!) to help out with gifts for the local schoolkids and a few Ipads which will be a great help to staff and kids. Lisa Falcongreen spent a few weeks volunteering here and is pictured here with some of the goodies which made it safely to Africa. Thank you so much.

04.01.2022 A wildlife photographer shares his experience and tips on how to travel Etosha!

03.01.2022 These are some of the funds from Ferny Grove High trivia night in October 2016. Many thanks to all who continue to help us help Humani.

03.01.2022 Tim Bailey and his Year 10 Graphics/Design students at Ferny Grove High School invested a huge amount of their own time in designing things that would be useful for the game scouts in Humani. It's a win-win for both parties - the students learn to make things that are useful and viable in the real world. Tim stuck a wonderful rapport with the scouts, pictured here in the workshop at Humani, teaching them to make some cooking utensils and a portable camp cot (using local materials). I's all about teaching the scouts to replicate the production process. Stanley (senior scout) can be seen enjoying his new bed whilst on patrol in the bush, doing his best to protect the wildlife from poachers.

03.01.2022 One of the most amazing things about Etosha National Park (Namibia) is the way this incredibly harsh environment manages to support a staggering amount of big game. Despite the drought, nature finds a way to trade in the cycle of life, death, and ultimately, renewal. It is a story as old as life itself. When we remove human emotions from this saga and view it as the tapestry of life playing out without cruelty or malice, it is a humbling experience. For someone like Tim Bailey, a first-time Africa visitor, photos like this in Etosha, with the 'white' elephants, has only served to make him more determined to return one day. Africa will always welcome people like him back...

02.01.2022 There's an old bush tradition in Africa that almost guarantees something special for good people on their last day on safari. John & Marlen were no exception - the lions of Etosha turned out in force to bid them farewell. On their last day, we actually saw more lions than impala or springbok! Hamba kahle - go in peace (Xhosa language).

01.01.2022 An interesting story from Mozambique...it is amazing to see how elephants in a 'protected' park like Kruger and the private reserves nearby are so much more chilled out than some other parks like Gorongosa or Gonarezhou where their behaviour has been affected by human predation. http://www.news.com.au//n/3a06dc55316bd76a9bbc83f56ed1b9f9