DBB Sponsored Charities for 2009

The DBB has decided that we will be raising funds to support two very different but both very worthwhile charities during the 2009 event. Firstly we will be supporting the Teenage Cancer Trust who are a charity set up to provide help for young people through their illness. Secondly we will be supporting The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (DSWT). This trust is based in Kenya, Africa and many people will be familiar with it through watching the television documentary, The Elephant Diaries.

The two charities will receive 50% of all the money raised from the sale of the Bonanza programme, and other fundraising efforts.

We hope that you can all find something to give, no matter how small to help.

With thanks The DBB Committee

 

Above Logo Copyrighted to Teenage Cancer Trust - Charity Registration Number - 1062559

Teenage Cancer Trust
https://www.teenagecancertrust.org

Every day in the UK, up to 6 teenagers or young adults (between the ages of 13 and 24) will find out they have cancer and that number equates to approximately 2,100 new cases a year. These young people, in the midst of their already difficult journey to adulthood, suddenly find themselves faced with a possible life-threatening illness. Up to the age of 16 a teenager is very likely to be treated in a paediatric ward alongside toddlers. If the same teenager was diagnosed after turning 16 then they are likely to end up in an adult ward with elderly patients. In either scenario, they are placed in a situation where they cannot relate to the other patients they are placed alongside.

Teenage Cancer Trust’s top priority is building units in NHS hospitals specifically for teenagers with cancer. As well as superior medical facilities, these units are equipped with day rooms, kitchens and "chill-out" rooms where teenagers can relax and feel at home or have friends and family to visit in a comfortable environment. There are computers with internet access, pool tables, Playstations, satellite TV, musical instruments, and other things teenagers might like to occupy their time with, or share with friends. Most importantly, the units provide an environment where teenagers can meet others in a similar situation and allow patients to build friendships and mechanisms to cope with their disease.

Whilst Teenage Cancer Trust does not at present have a base in Dundee, they provide their services to all of Scotland’s young people in their bases in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Teenage Cancer Trust provide hope and support during the already difficult teenage years to those affected by this dreadful illness.

The hospital staffs on these units are devoted to treating teenagers with cancer, and Teenage Cancer Trust funds activities coordinators in some units to help patients cope with their disease and pass the time in hospital. These units cost upwards of 2 million each to build, and Teenage Cancer Trust has built nine around the UK so far. Teenage Cancer Trust estimate that with the units they currently have around the UK, only half of the teenagers diagnosed with cancer now have access to this dedicated, specialist support. Their aim is to build enough units so that, by 2012, every single teenager will be treated on one. They need your help to do this.

Should you require more information or assistance, The Teenage Cancer Trust can be contacted as follows

Website:

General Enquiries:

Address:





Telephone:

Fax:

- https://www.teenagecancertrust.org

- tct@teenagecancertrust.org

- Teenage Cancer Trust
- 3rd floor
- 93 Newman Street
- London
- W1T 3EZ

- 020 7612 0370

- 020 7612 0371

Above Logo Copyrighted to David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust - Charity Registration Number - 1103836

The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (DSWT)
http://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org
The DSWT is a small, flexible charity dedicated to the protection and conservation of wildlife and habitats in Kenya. Established in 1977, in memory of David Sheldrick MBE the founder warden of Kenya’s Tsavo National Park, the DSWT has focused its efforts on the long term preservation of Kenya’s wild populations, with a particular focus on Tsavo, Kenya’s largest National Park. The DSWT is best known for its work in the rescue and hand rearing of orphaned elephants and black rhinos. Dr Dame Daphne Sheldrick pioneered the successful rehabilitation of these species, following 28 years of trial and error in the necessary husbandry and milk formula they needed, and today the DSWT has successfully rescued and raised over 90 elephant orphans and 17 rhinos orphans.

As part of its wider commitment to wildlife and the environment, the DSWT operates 6 fully mobile anti-poaching teams, tasked with removing snares and arresting poachers and 2 mobile veterinary units providing rapid in the field veterinary treatment to animals in need. The charity is also heavily involved in community outreach programmes, assisting communities living in close proximity to wildlife through the provision of schools equipment, wildlife field trips and video shows.

For over 25 years, from 1955 until 1976 David's wife Daphne lived and worked alongside her late husband, and was the first person in the entire world to successfully hand rear newborn fully milk dependent African Elephant orphans, something that spanned 28 years of trial and error to achieve. By the year 2008 the Trust had successfully saved and hand-reared over 82 infant African Elephant calves, two from the day of birth.

Currently, over 40 of the Trust’s hand-reared elephants are fully established and living free amongst their wild peers in Tsavo. Some of those parent elephants have returned with their wild born young to show them to their former human family.

The 8069 square miles of the Tsavo Park is Kenya’s largest wildlife refuge and it is here that the Trust places its greatest emphasis. Tsavo harbors the country’s single largest population of elephants and a greater biodiversity of species than any other Park in the world. The Park’s very size is its strength, for it is self sustainable and ecologically viable without intrusive human interference of its wild populations, other than to monitor, learn, take heed and better understand Nature’s ways. Despite facing everything that nature could throw at it (drought, epidemics etc.) its rich biodiversity has remained intact, strengthened through accepting natural selection which is a vital tool to distill out imperfections and keep the gene pools pure.

Besides harbouring most of Kenya’s elephants, and providing the space they need for a quality of life in elephant terms, Tsavo is also home to the last of the great herds of buffalo in Kenya, the rare Hirola, or Hunters Hartebeest, the largest population of lions left in Africa and a broad spectrum of other predators in healthy numbers, including the now extremely rare African hunting dogs, striped and spotted hyenas with reported sightings by experienced Naturalists of Brown Hyenas as well, previously not recorded in this part of the world.

The UK office of The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust can be contacted as follows:-

Website:

General Enquiries:

Address:







Telephone:

- http://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org

- infouk@sheldrickwildlifetrust.org

- The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust
- Unit 19
- Brook Willow Farm
- Woodlands Road
- Leatherhead
- KT22 0AN


0)1372 844 608