"I got very good support from professionals working in Serengeti, Ngorongoro Conservation and other national parks and game reserves. Through my book people will get an incredible opportunity to learn, visualize and imagine the magnificent experience of the Big Five." Global spread of foundation along with the success of the book, the foundation has expanded its operations beyond Tanzania's borders with 14 affiliated school clubs each with its own appointed ambassador in countries such as the US, China, South Africa, Nigeria, Cameroon and across East Africa. "They are supporting me and the foundation to execute various projects through their influences, talents and gifts," Sharon says. "Society is waking up to what we are doing. So many people visited the foundation's Dar es Salaaml office to ask for trees and support our tree planting in their areas after listening to my speeches or visiting my social media platforms." This widening of the foundation's operations has recently been our programs, I can simply call the office's phone. Honestly, I get plenty of time to engage in playtime and my hobbies, I cannot complain."
We plant these trees in public and private institutions such as schools, religious institutions and hospitals. My team is working on identifying areas in need of rehabilitation to make the biggest impacts and restore nature. "The demand for trees is very high given the severe environmental degradation happening within the country. It is our great desire to have more support to push this project and reach out to many places. We have seen how successful it is for the trees planted so far. I was talking to my dad and doing some numbers and we calculated that if 1,000 young, strong people planted 100 trees per day, we would have an additional two million trees planted in 20 days." Funding for the ramped-up tree-planting scheme has come in part from a percentage of the sales of Sharon's debut book, 'The Big Five,' in which the nature- lover shares her passion for the heavy hitters of Tanzania's world-leading wildlife - lions, leopards, elephants, African buffalo and rhinos. Sharon is very proud to say she wrote the book “THE BIG FIVE" and is sure it will soon turn its readers into tourists inTanzania. "If you read my book, your desire to visit Africa will shoot up because Africa is a paradise which in this case has to be protected at all cost," she says.
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