Elaine Hake from Essex, England decided two years ago to quit her job teaching self defense and advocating for women and volunteered to help with wildlife rehabilitation in Lilongwe, Malawi. When the position opened up to get paid, she took it.
In 2006, I went to the national zoo in Lilongwe. It was a sad affair with a leopard, a hyena, some baboons and vervet monkeys and nothing else. In 2007 the government gave the land to the Lilongwe Wildlife Trust. In 2008 the Trust began to clean the place up and start the process of turning the 180 acres into ...