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Thank you for your donations between 19th December and today (about an hour ago) to the Senkwekwe Centre - the new home of Ndeze and Ndakasi. Here they are listed below, with the largest donation first.

Ndeze enjoying life here in Virunga

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This is your last chance to become a Gorilla Godparent to Ndeze and/or Ndakasi for 2010 and ensure that the Gorilla Orphans will be happy, healthy and safe for the year to come!

If you haven’t done so yet, please Foster Ndeze or Foster Ndakasi using the Donate button on the right hand side. We will then send you a unique personalized certificate.

Your donation will be matched DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR by the UN Foundation.

This is what the certificates look like:

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This post is from Andre Bauma, Chief Gorilla Carer at the Senkwekwe Center:

We are a group of 4 carers here at the Senkwekwe Center, each of us devoted to our work. I work with Richard, Patrick & Alfred.

It will soon be 3 years since we started looking after these baby orphan mountain gorillas. At the beginning it was quite difficult; we felt under a lot of pressure because we were the only ones on whom Ndeze and Ndakasi could rely. Their welfare and their happiness lay in our hands.

Patrick & I with the gorilla orphans

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Here is a plan of the Senkwekwe Centre, as drawn by Katya. It’s fairly self-explanatory, but you can see the observation platform that is already complete at the top (east). The thick black lines are those of the walls that are already complete. As you know we are still raising the funds for the Education Center and Veterinary Laboratories. And of course the Gorilla Sector, aka Mikeno Sector, is only a stone’s throw away!

Thanks for all your support on behalf of all the Rangers in Virunga.

Thank you all for your donations from 12th to 18th Dec. We have now raised over $23,000 for the Senkwekwe Centre - the new home of Ndeze & Ndakasi.

Please remember that all donations go to the field in their entirety. Our admin costs are already covered by a grant from the European Union.

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Well almost!

I took these photos yesterday - and as you can see Observation Platform number 1 is almost done. It rises up just outside one corner of the 40mx40m and has a great view over the orphans, without being too intrusive.

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Ndakasi clearly thinks she can reach the tree tops.

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Ndeze & Ndakasi continue to adapt well to their new life in the forest. I am at Rumangabo and have just come from the Senkwekwe Centre. Andre has just left to go to the market. Monday is an important shopping day for the gorilla food - mainly the cauliflower and the carrots. There are 3 markets relatively close by, but they all stock different things. So at the moment Andre is going to market 3 times a week, but we want to cut that to 2. Andre took all these photos over the last few days.

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Thank you for all your donations this past week. Here you all are… each and every one of you who is making the Senkwekwe Centre a reality. I have listed the donations this week by donation amount, with the largest first. Thank you everyone!

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