For fundraising ideas, please see our December 2007 issue of our newsletter under the news and events page. If you need any help with fundraising or would like a list of items we currently need, please contact info@vervet.za.org

We are currently in need of:

• Materials for fencing and enclosures - poles, electric fencing etc
• Veterinary supplies, baby bottles, teats, blankets and much more
• Vehicle to run our monkey patrol project and education programmes
• Land 100 hectares in size approx to create vervet forest (a protected reserve) in the Tzaneen area with a dam, must be natural bushveld with no land claims.

If you can help with sponsorship of these items, please contact info@vervet.za.org or use our click to donate button.

VMF Veggie / Vegan Challenge 2011

The VMF aim for 2012, is to locate, secure and provide the infrastructure to maintain a site for releasing a troop of our resident Vervets, so that we can celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Foundation in 2013, confident in the knowledge that we ARE achieving what the VMF set out to do when it was established back in 1993.& help raise funds for a release site for the vervets - where the vervet dream becomes reality....
We are looking for volunteers to go from meat-eaters to vegetarian or vegetarian to vegan for one month around 19th November 2011

To take part:

• You will need to be committed to raise a min of R500 for the VMF in the way of sponsorship – we will e-mail you a sponsorship form
• You will need to be prepared to share your experience with us
• You will need to advertise this event or write a story for your local media to help raise further funds and spread awareness for the monkeys
• You will need to watch the suggested video to understand why you are going veggie / vegan for a month.

In return you will:

• receive a free VMF veggie / vegan recipe book prior to starting the challenge & know you have helped the vervets further
• be able to join the facebook events page and chat to others who are  also taking part
• help to reduce animal cruelty worldwide
• help reduce environmental impact
• help prevent habitat destruction & loss for wildlife
• be helping poverty in the third world
• have lots of health & emotional benefits
• be able to eat guilt free and have a conscious awareness and living

Please e-mail Josie Josie@vervet.za.org if you would like to take part with your address and whether you will be going veggie or vegan. Please also encourage friends and family and share the links on your blogs and facebook. The more who take part the more we can help the monkeys, their habitat and other animals
You can join the event on our facebook group where you can also chat to others doing the challenge on the link below:
Click here to join the event via our facebook page
If you are unable to take part then you may wish to sponsor somebody else or help advertise the event in your local or national news.

T-shirts available from UK or South Africa
(£13 in UK or R200 in SA plus P&P. Can post to other countries also)

Ladies fitted t-shirts in ice blue or black (S, M, L)
Men's v-neck t-shirts in steel blue or black (S, M, L, XL)
E-mail info@vervet.za.org to order

 

VMF Glossy Postcards available in South Africa
(R10 each or R80 for 10 plus P&P) e-mail info@vervet.za.org to order
(Kindly donated by Andy Tinker Photography)
Postcards are higher quality than shown

Front of postcard - photos taken by Nicole McClelland, Fionnuala Kerins, Alan Hughes

Back of postcard - photo taken by Sean Smart

We would like to thank the following people who have donated via our UK account, click to donate button or items needed so far this year:

Jan 2008 donations:
Suzy Harrison (previous volunteer) 100 pounds
Ruth Huntingdon (previous volunteer) 25 pounds

February 2008 donations:
Jill Holden (previous volunteer) – 25 pounds
Kimberly Erickson (Current volunteer Alyssa’s Mum) – 50 dollars
Brenton Head – 50 dollars
Dawn Ryder sent over some Royal Canin bottles and teats to be used for the babies

March 2008 donations:
Mark Clyne £10 donation
Christina Mollaghan (vet nurse & previous volunteer) sent over and paid for a bottle of Droncit injectable for some of the monkeys in sickbay.
Rachel Henry (previous volunteer) set up a standing order of £10 every month
Gayle Carda $50

April 2008 donations:
Lucy Radford (previous volunteer) £10
Henry Shields (previous volunteer) £50
Alexandra Robertson – (volunteering in June 2008) raised £350 by presenting a 5 slide presentation to all her colleagues & friends
Robyn Stoward (previous volunteer) raised 80 AU dollars from schools towards the microscope
Neil Wilson – donated a cabin to be used as a volunteer upgrade private cabin
Loraine Stoeter – sent over a big box of clothes for our workers and some items for schools
Kathleen & Lee Healy (Aoife’s parents) - 250 Euros
Claude-Alain Fournier (previous volunteer) - 250 Euros for microscope
Lucy Radford (previous volunteer) - £10 towards microscope

May 2008 donations:
Cyd Rossen-Herrmann (previous volunteer) - $50
Mary-Ellen Blinn (previous volunteer) - R40
Tricia Rose - (volunteer) bought various items such as new automatic water feeders for all the monkeys amongst other gifts
Daniele Carpitella & Vanessa Pape (volunteers) - R100 for spades to help with firebreaks
Cumfy cabins sponsored the delivery and erection of the new volunteer cabin.
Felicity Green – donated $25 for her brothers birthday

June 2008 donations
Alex Robertson (volunteer) raised a total of £921 from the following people by giving a short presentation:
Mark Light – various items sent, Moira Munro – various items sent
Alison White – bandages
Pilar Ramirez – baby bottles, bandages
Claudia Drada – 4 baby bottles, 1 blanket
John Speteri – baby bottle, teats
Caroline Laurenson – 2 blankets, 4 baby bottles
Carol & Raymond Spinks – £20
Jenny Milne – £10
Ana Oviedo – £80
Fraser Smith – £20
Ewan Robertson – £100
Julian Serna and Johanna Romero – £50
Neil Dudgeon – £20
Martine Barnes – £20
Patricia Reid – £50
Richard White – £20
Martin Koster – £1
Nick Hocking – £20
Amy Robertson – £5
Mark Wight – £5
Wilma Robertson – £10
Joel Williams & Emma Wilkie – £80
Marie Labus – £50
Claire Buckley – £50
Vanguard oil and gas (John Leonard and Vince, Lucy and Andrew Cowling) – £250
Kerry O’Neil – £20
Melanie Davidson – £10
Karen Stewart – £20
Ed Stronach – £10

July 2008
Kathleen & Lee Healy - 250 Euros

August 2008
Tiffany Myers (previous volunteer 2007) raised over $543 AUD from having a monkey magic day at her work. Tiffany is head of the charity division at 'Express Data' who matched the funds bringing a total of $1086 AUD

September 2008
Michaela Roberts - produced a vervet photo book (see above)
Jacqueline Pearce - £1000 for doing an interview with the Daily Mail.

Enkosini (volunteer organisation) - donations of enclosures and materials.

October 08
Eileen Goersdorf ( volunteer) sent a box of pens, surgical scissors for sickbay
Carolynn Garrison (volunteer) – blankets, surgical gloves, surgical trays, instruments, kidney dishes, emergency light, culture pots, blood pressure guage, masks, swabs, syringes

Nov 08
Simon Strickland (volunteer) - 60 small baby bottles and 20 extra teats, 20 soft fleece baby blankets, kindly paid for monkey to be taken to vet
Lucy Radford (volunteer) – donated £20 towards fridge for sickbay

Dec 08
Chris Auty (volunteer) – baby bottles (thanks to Sue Jackson for bringing them out)
Jude Roycroft (volunteer) – Blankets, bottles, bottle and teat brushes, latex gloves, bandages
Andy Tinker photography - donated 2000 postcards to help raise funds