Wallapa

Friends Of Bonobos

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:22:31 -0400

Friends of Bonobos supports the sanctuary Lola ya Bonobo, located in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. We are the world’s only bonobo sanctuary, home to 62 orphans whose parents were killed by the bushmeat trade. Besides the 20,000 visitors, our education officers also reach 10,000 school children in Kinshasa and the surrounding areas. This year in June, we also conducted the world’s first bonobo release, where 8 orphans were returned to the wild.

Check them out here

Wildlife Direct

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:20:00 -0400

WildlifeDirect was conceived as a non-profit conservation organization based in Kenya along the lines of an internet startup company. The organization was built to avoid the pitfalls of bureaucracy and crippling procedures of the public sector, to secure efficient conservation management in parks and reserves throughout the world.

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Cercopan

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:06:53 -0400

Founder Canadian Zena Tooze, became passionate about the plight of primates in West Africa when arriving to work for the Cross River National Park as a volunteer. Out of this passion, and her combined background in veterinary nursing and zoology, CERCOPAN (Centre for Education, Research and Conservation of Primates and Nature) was born, which always had education and primate conservation as its primary purpose. Zena’s vision was always to form a international centre where young people of Nigeria could learn from each other, in partnership with the international community, and appreciate different way of thinking about their environment. In Nigeria, there wasn’t a lot of time left - but there was a love of life and welcome from the Nigerian people which made it all seem possible… CERCOPAN is now one of the leading environmental non-profit, non-government organizations working for conservation in Cross River State, Nigeria, with excellent relationships with government at both state and federal levels, and with a support organisation in the UK (registered charity 1116955). Our primary areas of work are primate rehabilitation, environmental education, community rainforest conservation, and research. CERCOPAN has two sites, our administrative and primate rehabilitation headquarters in Calabar, and our international research and education centre at Rhoko, Iko Esai (our community partners). Partners include the Cross River State Forestry Commission, Ministry of Environment, the Cross River National Park and the University of Calabar. The programmes of CERCOPAN focus on primate rehabilitation and conservation, environmental education, biodiversity and primate research and forest conservation which benefits local communities. As a cross cutting theme, capacity building of local staff and Nigerian young people is vital, and to this end we have developed a partnership with the University of Calabar to establish an international, top class Rain Forest Conservation Institute. We have already developed a ‘living classroom’ concept to complement this at our forest site. Here, at Rhoko, we have established an international research and education centre to help us work towards our overall goal of working for primate conservation and the preservation of biodiversity, as well as educate young people about the rainforest through first hand practical experience of this amazing environment located on their doorstep. Located approximately 90 km north of Calabar, this centre was established as a result of a long term agreement with Iko Esai community, in their community forest close to Rhoko River, from where it gets its name.

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AVIF Volunteers Kenya

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:04:50 -0400

AVIF is an innovative online charity, assisting with sustainable development via online & onsite volunteering in rural Kenya, East Africa. Being virtual means negligible administration costs for worldwide impact. We believe in efficiency, honesty and transparency. AVIF doesn’t charge fees.

Onsite volunteers are fully immersed into rural communities, repaying their communitiy’s hospitality by advocating sustainable development NOT handouts. They help us share a range of simple but effective concepts such as solar cooking & power, disease prevention, empowerment to women, global opportunity and internet capabilities.

Online volunteers can offer any skills they may have to help a project from the comfort of their desk, using the NABUUR “virtual village” system. No costs, no footprint. NABUUR is an entirely online system allowing anyone, anywhere to simply log on to contribute to the project.

Please visit the website www.avif.org.uk and Blog for full details of our work and the Summer Programme. You can also join us on Facebook to meet and chat with any of the volunteers who’ve already experienced Kenya and the work we do. Please look over the websites of our associated hosts, and the photographs on our Gallery or Flickr for an exact idea of what’s involved.

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Camp International Trust

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:03:59 -0400

The Camps International Trust is a charitable associate of Camps International. We work together to identify community development and wildlife concerns in Africa and the Far East. We strive to build economic self sufficiency within the communities in which we work, by improving people’s daily lives and living conditions in sustainable and lasting way.

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Late week special

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:42:00 -0400

Hi everyone,

Thanks for the overwhelming responses on the specials. And since you asked for it, we will do it again but this is limited to 10 organizations. Here is how we break it down.

If you represent a non-profit organisation in Africa, and you have your own video and can get 10 pictures, we are giving away hosting for 5 of you. For free. Forever. No questions asked.

Flipside, if you own a for profit organization, we are giving away hosting for 5 non profits for one month. However, one of the organizations will be granted free hosting for life by our randomizer (that we are going to invent), including use of the internal booking system plus a lot of benefits. However and please note, if you don’t have a video, well we shoot the video for you at cost. You must have a video and atleast 10 pictures.

The two offers are only available till Friday 17.00 Kenyan time, and are on a first come first served basis. So visit the site, check out where you fit in, and if you are keen, send an email to (skathurima@wallapa.com).

Get cracking people.

Sylvia

Free forever

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:06:05 -0400

Hi,

If you run a non-profit charitable organisation in Africa, thats right, in Africa, if you can submit a 1 - 3 minute video of your charity by Friday 17.00 Kenyan time, we will give you free publicity for free, forever. So submit a video by mailing it to skathurima@wallapa.com and a small writeup of what you do, and where you are located (Gmap coordinates) a link to your website and all contact details and we will give you free service forever. Get cracking people.

Sylvia Kathurima

Head Of Operations

Looking sexy

Sat, 08 Aug 2009 04:51:23 -0400

Hi,

We have finalised the new set of upgrades for Wallapa. However, this does not mean the end of work. We are looking to lift the Quality Of Service for Wallapa as we prepare to move over to new servers which will be much more faster than the current ones. The handover should be fulfilled by the end of the month.

Thank you.

Sylvia Kathurima

Head Of Operations

Wallapa Spinoff

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 05:12:51 -0400

Good Day,

As of this morning, Kahenya with the assistance of our Legal Team initiated a “spinoff” of Wallapa from being a ViRN Instruments Company to being an Independent Company. This move allows the company to grow independently of other ViRN Instruments assets and will allow for independent investors to come in.

Over the next 90 days, we will be creating a full new Board of Directors and unveiling a new corporate strategy. Until this transaction is finalised, Kahenya still remains as the overall CEO until otherwise stated. We will also be announcing the new location of our offices when we finalise that.

Thank You

Sylvia Kathurima

Head Of Operations

Wallapa - Simple Travel

White Label Services

Wed, 27 May 2009 16:05:08 -0400

Hi guys,

We will be launching our new White-Label Service in the next of days. What the white-label service does is offer a platform for a specific set of facilties contained in a chain business. For instance if a specific chain of hotels wants to have a map that shows all their facilties Africa wide, that is dedicate to them, we can now deliver that kind of service to them including full branding, logos and a unified booking system that intergrates with the current Wallapa Platform or that can remain separate. It also means that any Wallapa users registered on the original Wallapa site will be able to login to any white label service site and have their details carried forward, making it easier for them to make bookings.

Watch out for the White Label Service about to launch real soon.

Thanks.

Kahenya

Wallapa - Simple Travel Press Release 21/05/09 PDF

Thu, 21 May 2009 10:08:00 -0400

Wallapa - Simple Travel Press Release 21/05/09

PDF

Exit Beta

Wed, 13 May 2009 15:33:51 -0400

Hi,

After a month of testing, we are finally out of closed Beta and now in open Beta. We now invite you to register and enjoy using this service. Join us at www.wallapa.com/join

Thank you.

Kahenya Kamunyu

Formal Talks

Wed, 06 May 2009 11:17:11 -0400

Hi everyone,

We would like to announce that we have officially entered formal talks with Nation Media Group for a partnership deal on Wallapa - Simple Travel. The talks are aimed at further growing the platform and creating a much better user experience. Details will be announced when the talks are formally completed. Business remains as usual.

Thank You.

Kahenya

Acquired

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:33:00 -0400

Hi all,

Its with great pleasure that I announce that Wallapa - Simple Travel has picked up Series B funding from Kamfami Investments which has acquired a 11.4% stake in Wallapa - Simple Travel. We are anticipating the naming of the Board Of Directors of Wallapa - Simple Travel over the course of this month.

Thank you.

Kahenya Kamunyu

What is Wallapa???

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 06:45:00 -0400

We are Africa’s first Video Production And Advertising company for great locations within the continent. Utilizing our network of Service Providers and Camera People, Google Maps and Blip.TV, some code and web servers, we are able to generate numerous videos per month and have them online for viewing. However, we are not limited to video, but are able to carry pictures…

Thus, we can provide high quality online video that will carry your brand across to your customers. We have a low-cost production and development model that will ensure that we are able to keep costs under check without compromising quality.

Our main targets include Small to Medium Enterprises that fail to get the mention when its needed.

In the end, Wallapa is the travelers comprehensive guide to great locations in Africa. Road warriors will simple be able to find great locations and book them online.

Rejected Offers

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 04:46:31 -0400

Hi guys,

Just a quick heads up to all parties concerned. We have just rejected two acquisition offers for the Wallapa - Simple Travel Platform.

Offer number one was from an American Company which has chosen to remain anonymous. They had put in a good qualifying bid, but we are not up for an outright take over.

Offer number two was from a local Kenyan Company which again has chosen to remain anonymous. We had to reject the offer again as it was not up to par.

The record straight.

We are not keen on being acquired, but is keen on partnerships with companies that can deliver within our Business Model. Our lawyers (Thuita Kiiru and Co. Advocates, and Njoroge Regeru and Company) are evaluating all offers equally and we will contact those we feel are withing out targets for 2009-2010.

Thank you.

Kahenya

East Africa Demo Video

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:45:54 -0400

East Africa Demo Video

Welcome

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 05:51:38 -0500

Welcome to the Wallapa blog. Basically this is where the conversation will be starting, and all updates to the site will be here. We hope you enjoy this.

Thanks.