Donation
Donate Helps the TrustDear Donator
We appreciate your donation at any level.
Your donations will help the Turgwe Hippo Guardians to purchase the necessary materials to operate at Hippo Haven in Zimbabwe in order to keep on protecting the Turgwe Hippos. Monthly outgoings include wages for 7 staff members, the Rangers and Karen Paolillo’s assistant Silas. Diesel fuel for the generator which provides power for the satellite dish internet, pumping of water for the homestead and the 3 hippo pans and all electrical requirements. Daily fuel to use in the vehicles for checking on the hippos. Bonuses for the Rangers when capturing poachers. Feeding of the homestead wildlife that comes to Hippo Haven as a sanctuary from sport hunting and poaching and so the monthly costs carry on.
You will be helping us by any donation you can afford.
Thanks
New Capability offered by Paypal: Donation using Credit Card
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NEW DONATION PROCESS
Wonderful people in the USA have formed a not for profit [Friends of Turgwe Hippo Trust USA, Inc.] to help the Turgwe Hippos raising funds for the animals protection. We thank the USA Directors for embracing our mission for these hippos and other wild animals.
Welcome to the new team and thank you for embracing such a sustainable mission.
We are also thrilled to say that we now have a registered UK charity for the Turgwe Hippos which has been formed by four wonderful people in the UK. Like in the USA with Friends of the Turgwe Hippos we now have Turgwe Hippo Guardians in the UK and UK people can also help by using Gift Aid to give the hippos even more benefits. We cannot thank you all enough for being there for these amazing animals.
All donations received by Friends of Turgwe Hippo Trust USA, Inc. A US based Not for Profit Corporation whose purpose is to provide support to and promote the interest of the Turgwe Hippo Trust in Zimbabwe.
Funds you donate are used exclusively to benefit the Trust in Zimbabwe.
Friends of Turgwe Hippo Trust USA, Inc is a valid 501(c)(3) Not For Profit Corporation in accordance with the standards and regulations of the internal Revenue Service (IRS). American citizens/donators will receive an IRS receipt for completing their IRS statement with each single donation.
Donators from other countries using the USD currency/button will not receive any receipt.
Choice is given to donate within three currencies.
Feel free to choose the one you prefer.
American Donators, click the button above.
During 2025 some of the things that your donations to the Turgwe Hippo Trust have managed to achieve is to raise enough funds to feed Max hippo, 47 warthogs, 8 bushpigs, over 70 baboons and thirty vervet monkeys at the headquarters. This has kept them in a far safer environment even though they return to their natural habitat in the bush each day or night. They have learnt that our home is a safe haven and they tend to stay close which allows us and the Rangers to protect them from poaching and hunting. They are not dependant on the feeding only in times of drought but it does give them that added security of a safe haven.
Your donations have paid for bonuses and given the Rangers more financial stability for themselves and their families when we reward them financially for catching poachers or removing fishing nets from the Turgwe River. Your donations have been put towards a talk that Karen Paolillo will be doing in the UK at the Ondaatje theatre at the Royal Geographical Society in October 2026. This allows more people to know about the hippos and the wildlife at Turgwe Hippo Trust and what our organisation is all about. It is a prestigious venue and your donations are helping to cover the theatre cost and all the extras on the night.
We hope we will see some of the hippo supporters there so we can actually thank you in person for all that you have achieved for these amazing animals.
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