Note that the area was seriously affected by the war that most of people are widows and widowers. I then felt the necessity of building a school where 230 orphans could study as their parents (widows, widowers or paupers) didn’t have any hope for life.

My Conde Nast Traveler Award was completely used for this purpose.
The children are from surrounding villages (Kasugho, Kagheri, Kasinga, Kakokola, Makoka and Busigha). They are brought by widowers, widows or other people attesting how they came up to be orphans. We take them for free of charge studies and provide then with school furniture. We also pay for their school-teacher salaries.

Pierre's $20,000 award from Conde Nast

Traveler Award was used entirely to build

Our orphans are badly clothed, underfed and we thought of giving them medical treatment without any fees paid. They also live far from school, reason why we are thinking of building an orphanage for them.

A 20 hectares place not far from the university was chosen to home the orphanage. It is a safe place far from the usual places of animals. It is near some villages and the students’ boarding house as well as the staff’s home.

I believe that having an orphanage for these children is a way to save these people with no other form of assistance. Think also about their food and medical assistance, clothing, …

There has been a high diminution of mortality within these orphans since we started giving medical treatment to these children.

I hope we gather to improve the orphans’ ways of living and I am sure we can succeed despite the difficult climatic conditions. The area is very cold, and it rains all the time there, reason why we should have a well equipped house.

The other 300 orphans are students at our university (TCCB) and have formed a club called “The Wildlife Club”. Their aim is to vulgarize community conservation ideas. These students are chosen from secondary schools and can’t go on with studies because of shortage of money. They are at our university and lack school fees (500$ / year). Anyone of good will can come in recourse of these future Conservationists.

These 300 orphan – students or paupers are conveying the message of conservation through mesologic awareness campaigns, theatres, …
They are not necessarily sons and daughters of landowners funded by CARPE through CI.