Daktari is a registered non-profit company located in the Limpopo
Province of South Africa near the Kruger National Park. It is an
organisation of people who care, not only for animals and nature, but
also for those less fortunate than themselves.
The mission of Daktari is to educate and inspire underprivileged
children to care for their environment through the medium of a wildlife
orphanage.
Every Monday we welcome a new group of 8 local underprivileged children and 1 youth as a local volunteer for a week and give them the opportunity to discover, learn and become passionate about wildlife, conservation and their heritage.
We also supplement their school curriculum in English, maths, sciences, geography, life skills and social issues.
Many of the children come from very large classes where one to one teacher interaction is near impossible. The personal interaction of the international volunteers helps bring out the passion to learn and the knowledge passed on can be seen often times quite drastically by the end of the week.
Our goal is to enable today’s local underprivileged children to eventually be able to secure good employment in one of the countless nature reserves all over South Africa, thereby improving their future quality of life.
