Wildlife Clubs of Kenya

Category: Uncategorized | Date: Aug 05 2008 | By: wildlifeclubskenya

For many years the Wildlife Clubs of Kenya has been undertaking a sole and vital task of educating the Kenyan Public on conservation issues. This has been well fulfilled through our grassroots structures, effective School Educational Programs, conservation publications and conservation activities initiated.

We pay special tribute to many organizations and individuals who have donated various conservation films to our conservation programs. We kindly appeal for more of such support. Indeed the films are an effective conservation education tool.

With the support from interested individuals and organizations, Wildlife Clubs of Kenya would like to initiate an idea of making Community/School Conservation Films.

Why Make Community/Schools Conservation films?

• The documentaries/films will be locally made, hence they will create a sense of belonging and voice to the local people. Therefore they will be more interested to watch.
• The films will be made in local language hence easy for communities to understand.
• The films will focus on relevant community conservation challenges. They will be specific to the local conservation  problem.
• They will offer solutions/alternatives to the local conservation challenges.
• Accessibility:The films will be shown and distributed to schools and communities.
• To cope with our quickly rising audience and demand    (Schools and community groups)
• They will form a great package to our Mobile education Unit Programs that educates over 500 schools and reaches over 300,000 school children and local communities countrywide every year.

Do we have the ability?

Yes, our well structured grassroot networking will make it easy to make and distribute the films to local communtities/schools country wide. This will be throgh schools, students, teachers, community groupes and partnering organizations.

Thanks to Dr. David Harper of Leicester University, some of our staff members have received training on how to make films through the ‘Community Conservation Film Making Training Program.’ We shall use our trained staff and even consult with the Training team while making the Films.

For us to initiate this program we are kindly appealing to interested individuals and organizations to help us with some filming equipments whether new or used). For example:

• Mackintosh laptop
• Final Cut Pro editing program & iDVD
• A Video camera with required specifications ( input & output connectors, card slot/tape loading, LCD monitor, DVD recording, >5 mega pixels & camera conveniences).
• Other filming gears ( external mike, tripod)

Thank you so much

Gabriel

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