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Once again, Team 25 is renewing its mission to help conserve the environment in Kenya.

As you may be aware, Team 25 was established by and is made up of a group of old friends, many of whom started school together way back in the eighties We made our debut in the Rhino Charge in 2000. The crew, consisting of Michael Ogwapit ,Teeku Patel, Kevin Bender, Victor Oyango,  Mark Muinde, Devan Khagram and Ragu Muraya, are all deeply committed to conservation in Kenya. Over the last nine years, Team 25 has raised a total of Ksh 6.3 million ($80,000).

In 1988, The Rhino Ark Charitable Trust and its supporters devised an exciting and novel fundraising event: the annual Rhino Charge!  The Rhino Charge is a unique off-road orienteering event – the only one of its kind in Africa.  The primary objective of the event is to reach all 13 guard posts in the shortest possible distance across difficult trackless terrain.  Last year  55 teams entered the event and it raised a record breaking Kshs 72 million ($1,000,000). 


Rhino Ark was founded 21 years ago in partnership with the Kenya Wildlife Service to conserve and protect the Aberdare ecosystem. One of Rhino Ark’s primary projects is an electric fence completely surrounding the Aberdare National Park and Reserve.  The fence protects the enclosed ecosystem, including the endangered black rhino, and helps eliminate human/wildlife conflicts by protecting the lives, crops and livestock of neighboring farmers.
The Aberdares is one of Kenya’s main rain catchments areas and the source of five of the country’s main rivers, providing hydro-electrical power and water to millions of Kenyans.  The myriad of flora and fauna in the Aberdares are an attraction for tourists, a keystone of the Kenyan economy.  The fence being built by the Rhino Ark is an effort to harmonize all these interests, physical, financial and political, in an equitable and sustainable way.  Since the Ark’s founding, over 390 kms of the fence has been built. In that area, ecosystems, forest, animals and farms are really benefiting.

In the current economic climate it is easy to overlook the environment and we simply ask that you help us in our conservation efforts in Kenya by supporting us in this way.  All the funds that you provide Team 25 will go directly to support conservation in Kenya.

Donating through this site is simple, fast and totally secure.

We thank you for your support,

Kind regards,
Team 25.