Our German Ranger colleague Mario Marschler after the last ERC in Litomerice started saving money to fund a Ranger to attend the World Ranger Congress in Nepal. See here the result and the report from Mario:
After attending a European Ranger Congress (2017 in Litomerice-Cze)for the first time, following the speech by the IRF president Sean Wilmore about our worldwide ranger family, I had the spontaneous idea to support one ranger from somewhere in the world to visit the WRC in Nepal.
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With the help from Niki Göth and Michael Grossmann to make contact with overseas Rangers, I was able to get my plan started. This eventually resulted in me raising enough funds for one ranger from Botswana – but there were two applicants and I had to decide between either Grace or Okwa. This proved impossible, so I decided to raise more funds by organising a Fundraising party inviting a lot of my friends and other people who I know in order to support both of them getting to Nepal. These invited colleagues and guests were fantastic and I collected enough funds to achieve the objective. For me was a great and very emotional feeling meeting both of them from far-off Africa at the WRC in Chitwan NP Nepal. Unfortunately we had only 4 days to talk, to discuss and to know each other personally but I hope I will meet them again, maybe next time in Botswana.
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This is a message to you from Mario:
Maybe this is a good example for other Rangers to raise funds for a colleague who is not able to visit the next European Ranger congress in 2020. Why not get together a group of people and try to collect some money for travel costs or more? Mario Maschler will again start raising funds for the next congress. Please contact Niki projects@europeanrangers.org
If you need more informations or if you are starting your own project to raise funds.