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 DONATING WITH A CHEQUE
If donating ON LINE does not suit you and you would
rather make a donation by CHEQUE we recommend you send
your cheques to the relevant address depending on where
in the world you are from.
Please click on links if you live in the
U.S.A or
U.K. as we are now a
registered Charity in the United Kingdom, and have 501
(c) (3) status in the United States of America. Should
you live anywhere else in the world other than the
U.S.A. or U.K. please click on
Other.
DONATING BY
DIRECT WIRE TRANSFER
Aside from our
DIRECT ON LINE DONATION
FACILITY, or the option of mailing a
cheque, the cheapest and surest way of getting donations
to us is to wire it through our Bank's corresponding
overseas bank.
When wiring funds, it is important to use the
corresponding bank details as well, all of which are
detailed below.
You may wish to refer to
The Commercial Bank of Africa’s Corresponding Bank
booklet for guidance (PDF Document).
When making a wire transfer please email us telling
us which bank and how much so that we can confirm its
arrival. Email Address:
rc-h@africaonline.co.ke
Details required to transfer
US$ Dollars to bank account at Commercial Bank of
Africa, Nairobi, Kenya.
PLEASE TRANSFER: US$ DOLLARS TO
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American
Express Bank Ltd.
American Express Tower, 23rd Floor
200 Vesey Street
New York,
NY 10285
USA
fed aba rOUTING no. – 124071889
SWIFT code : AEIBUS33
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FOR CREDIT OF ACCOUNT OF
COMMERCIAL BANK OF AFRICA
P.O BOX 30437 WABERA / STANDARD STREETS
NAIROBI
KENYA
SWIFT CODE: CBAFKENX
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FOR FINAL CREDIT TO:
THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE
TRUST
Account No: 0-151-270-506
PLEASE ADVISE AMERICAN EXPRESS BANK TO
NOTIFY COMMERCIAL BANK OF AFRICA USING SWIFT FIN 103
Details required to transfer
Sterling Pounds to bank account at Commercial
Bank of Africa, Nairobi, Kenya.
PLEASE TRANSFER: STERLING POUNDS
TO
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HSBC
Bank PLC
27 – 32 Poultry
London ec2p 2bx
united kingdom
soRT CODE: 400000
SWIFT CODE :
MIDLGB22
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FOR CREDIT OF ACCOUNT OF
COMMERCIAL BANK OF AFRICA
P.O BOX 30437 WABERA / STANDARD STREETS
NAIROBI
KENYA
SWIFT CODE: CBAFKENX
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FOR FINAL CREDIT TO:
THE DAVID SHELDRICK
WILDLIFE TRUST
Account No: 0-151-270-018
PLEASE
ADVISE
HSBC
Bank PLC
TO ADVISE COMMERCIAL BANK OF AFRICA USING SWIFT
FIN 103
Details required to transfer
EUROS to bank account at Commercial Bank of
Africa, Nairobi, Kenya.
PLEASE TRANSFER: EURO TO
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Commerzbank AG
60261 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
SWIFT: COBADEFF
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FOR CREDIT OF ACCOUNT OF
COMMERCIAL BANK OF AFRICA
P.O BOX 30437 WABERA / STANDARD STREETS
NAIROBI, KENYA
EURO Account: 400 8770109 00EUR
SWIFT CODE: CBAFKENX
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FOR FINAL CREDIT TO:
THE DAVID SHELDRICK
WILDLIFE TRUST
Account No: 0-151-270-018
PLEASE
ADVISE COMMERZBANK AG TO ADVISE COMMERCIAL BANK
OF AFRICA USING SWIFT FIN 103
Donors who wish to wire money to The David Sheldrick
Wildlife Trust in Kenya in a currency other than US
Dollars and Sterling Pounds can refer to
Commercial Bank of Africa’s
corresponding bank booklet (PDF
Document), and choose the relevant corresponding bank
and note the sample letter in this booklet which can be
used for guidance, or you can contact us first so that
we may confirm the corresponding bank address for your
country. We can be contacted on
rc-h@africaonline.co.ke
Remember, we do not solicit funds from people so any help you might be able to give would be gratefully appreciated! Thank you.
 VOLUNTEER WORK
Many well-wishers contact the Trust with offers of
hands-on help. Whilst we appreciate such
offers enormously, we very much regret that voluntary
work in Kenya is not easy, and especially so with our
orphaned animals, for the following reasons.
Firstly, only the elephant and rhino Keepers, who
literally replace the orphans' lost family, and must be
prepared to be "family" for up to ten years, may do the
hands-on work, since even voluntary work in Kenya by a
foreigner requires a Work Permit. Since the
orphans are ostensibly the property of the Government,
we have to be careful to abide by the rules, added to
which the country has a burgeoning population and mass
unemployment, so any work done by an outsider is also
viewed as having deprived a needy Kenyan of an
occupation that would at least keep him or her off the
streets.
The Keepers are with the elephant calves until such
time as they are no longer dependent on the human family
and are comfortable back within the wild elephant
community of Tsavo National Park. This
depends upon how well an orphan can recall its elephant
family, which in turn depends upon what age it was
orphaned. Also it is definitely
counter-productive to allow a young elephant to become
fond of someone who is unable to devote the length of
time this takes. Since at any given age a
baby elephant duplicates its human counterpart, and it
is essential to take care of the mind so that the
orphans will be psychologically stable and as such
acceptable within the wild community, we try to avoid
any psychological upset which the loss of a loved one
always causes.
 The
rehabilitation of orphaned elephants down in Tsavo
National Park is a long term commitment which involves
walking on foot out in the bush. Obviously
there is an element of danger attached to this, and the
Government does not allow a foreigner to be exposed in
this way. It is illegal to walk on
foot in a National Park unless accompanied by an armed
Ranger.
Lastly, but by no means least, we are not in a
position to offer anyone accommodation and their keep,
since the Nairobi Nursery duplicates as Daphne's very
small home that has only one spare bedroom usually
occupied by family and friends. That said,
if ever you visit Kenya, you are very welcome to visit
us any day between 11 a.m. and 12 noon when the Nursery
inmates come in for their daily mudbath, and we are open
for public viewing.
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