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Flat Stanley Goes to Kenya (13): The Elephant Orphanage

January 3, 2011 By Guy St. Clair

Flat Stanley had some wonderful times in Africa, but it seems the Giraffe Center (described last time) and the Elephant Orphanage made him the happiest. Yet describing the elephant orphanage is a real challenge because I become very emotional thinking about how the elephants were orphaned, and what wonderful work the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust is doing …

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Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, Kenya - African bush elephant, Kenya - Elephants

A Kenya Sunday with Best Friends – Starting with the Elephant Orphanage

May 31, 2010 By Guy St. Clair

I had my first visit to the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust on my first week-end in Kenya, when Charles – my new driver – took me there on 15 November 2009. I wrote about the visit here, but I did not alas have a camera at the time. So for my final Sunday in Kenya – …

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Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, Elephant Orphanage, Kenya - David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, Kenya - Elephants

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