Computers-for-Chiefs Initiative

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UPDATE: Thanks to a donation from USAID, we were able to secure 16 desktop computers. You can read more about it in this blog post.

Dear COMACO Supporter,

COMACO has a 15 year history of supporting bottom-of-the-pyramid farmers across Zambia’s Luangwa Valley, home to some of Africa’s most important wildlife populations. Working with traditional leaders, or Chiefs as they are locally known, is pivotal to COMACO’s work in order to advance more progressive thinking about land management and resource protection.  

From these relationships, COMACO has identified 16 chiefs that have demonstrated a real desire to take wildlife conservation seriously and leverage their traditional powers to prevent further degradation of natural resources on their land and restore what has been lost.

We are aiming to provide these 16 Chiefs with second-hand computers in order to further assist these 16 Chiefs in pursuing conservation efforts in conjunction with COMACO.

These laptops will be loaded with Global Forest Watch, which will allow chiefs to view real-time incidence of fires, deforestation, and environmental trends in their chiefdoms. The selected Chiefs will be mentored by Japhet Seulu and Angel Mukangu,  COMACO’s GIS Specialists, to use this information to assess their efforts and relate management decisions and delegated efforts by members of the community to influence these trends.

If you have a spare computer you would like to donate to COMACO’s Computers-for-Chiefs Initiative, we will be receiving through October 5 to the following address:

Dale Lewis

12510 Sanford Street

Los Angeles, CA 90066

We thank you in advance for your consideration and your gracious donation. Your support will help COMACO achieve a lasting mark for conservation in Zambia’s most vulnerable chiefdoms. For more information, queries, and donation within Zambia, please email obell@staging.itswild.org. 

Yours sincerely,

Dale Lewis

CEO and Founder of COMACO