Kariega Recreation Reserve within the Japanese Cape launched their first-ever shoe with native South African shoemaker Veldskoen Sneakers within the hopes of elevating funds for the Kariega Basis.
Kariega is dwelling to Thandi the Rhino who miraculously survived a near-fatal assault again in 2012 when three white rhinos have been brutally poached within the reserve. One died that night time and shortly afterwards, the second bull handed away.
If you buy a pair of Kariega Veldskoen, earnings are donated in direction of the Kariega Basis in help of their conservation programme to protect the wilderness and defend its rhinos whereas uplifting the encircling neighborhood.
‘Collectively, by gross sales of the Kariega Veldskoen, we intention to generate funding that may help quite a few and numerous initiatives that move from our core motives to guard and protect our pure heritage in addition to uplift and educate our neighbouring communities in order that, collectively, we could reform that which threatens its existence and construct a conservation neighborhood that works collectively to rejuvenate our planet, folks and wildlife,’ Kariega Basis Director Lindy Sutherland says.
The Kariega Basis is a non-profit belief working in partnership with Kariega Recreation Reserve to create a sustainable eco-tourism mannequin that delivers on a holistic mandate to guard and protect the Kariega wilderness and uplift the folks and communities that stay in and across the reserve.
The imaginative and prescient is to construct a conservation neighborhood that works collectively to rejuvenate our planet, folks and wildlife.
The Kariega Veldskoen shoe is a home made, luxurious nubuck chukka boot, absolutely leather-based lined with TR soles. It features a rhino motif to honour the rhinos in want of safety over the heel arch, under the immediately recognisable Veldskoen trademark flag.
The sneakers are unisex retail at R1699 and can be found to buy on-line at www.veldskoen.com and on the Kariega Recreation Reserve curio store and vary from dimension 2 UK – 14 UK.
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