Wildlife Action Group Malawi is a non-profit organization that works with local communities and the Malawian Government to protect wild areas and the wildlife that live there. They are directly responsible for two forest reserves, Thuma and Dedza Salima Escarpment in central Malawi. The reserves total over 520 km2 , and are key water catchments and rich in biodiversity. The WAG education team visit primary and secondary schools around the reserves on a regular monthly basis: they are improving school infrastructure, provide reading materials, and extra-curricular environmental activities – reaching nearly 11,000 young people (and their teachers and families).
We’ve provided PACE materials and are pleased that these are a help to the WAG team, and above all to learners in the local schools. Lynn Clifford the coordinator shared that “the writing of poems has come from PACE, and this one in particular is really good.” It really shows how the children are learning, building language skills, and realising the implications of poaching, on people as well as animals!
Had I known I could not join a group of poachers
I have been entering in the protected forest
To kill different wildlife that it became my habit
But I never know what will come
Now I am in jail
Because rangers they caught me
As I was poaching
So my family now suffer as I am not there
And now I have become a blood donor
Donating my blood to lice, bedbugs and mosquitoes
Had I known I could not have joined a group of poachers
I had so many friends outside
But now, no one’s come
Indeed, I was technical in the know how to penetrating the forest
But now nothing
But now I know that secret under the earth
And what goes around comes around
Had I known I could not join a group of poachers
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