Our #GivingTuesday campaign is still open, we are $1,585.00 - and we want to highlight a heartwarming story about Lily Anthony to inspire you! 🦏

🌍 A Thanksgiving Story to Warm the World: Meet 9-Year-Old Lily, Our Youngest Philanthropist

Every so often, a young person reminds us that compassion has no age limit. This Thanksgiving, that young person was 9-year-old Lily Anthony.

While most children spent the holiday playing or relaxing with family, Lily had a different idea. She transformed her home into a mini-spa, complete with a handwritten menu of services, cozy setups and a cheerful smile for every visiting family member she convinced to partake!

Her price?

$3 for each 20-minute session (and tips were welcomed!)

Her goal?

To raise money for wildlife conservation in Africa. Especially rhinos.

By the end of the day, Lily had earned $130 all through her own creativity, effort, and determination. Then her uncle Michael stepped forward with an extraordinary offer: he would match every dollar she raised.

Together, they brought their total to $260, which Lily proudly donated to Over and Above Africa’s Giving Tuesday campaign.

We are deeply moved by Lily’s generosity, her imagination, and her unwavering belief that she could make a difference. And she did.

Lily reminds us that protecting Africa’s wildlife begins with hearts like hers — brave, thoughtful, and full of hope.

Our Giving Tuesday campaign is still live, and if Lily inspires you the way she inspires us, we invite you to join her in supporting the wildlife we work so hard to protect. With an offline DAF donation of $500, our total is currently $1,585 and we're hoping to get to $5,000 by the end of December specifically for rhino, meerkat and vulture initiatives.

WIll you take a leaft out of Lily's book to help us?

👉 Donate here and carry Lily’s legacy forward. 🔗 https://givebutter.com/giving-tuesday-2025-over-and-above-africa

With gratitude,

The Over and Above Africa Team

New to us? Here's Who We Are

Over and Above Africa is now 10 years old! We partnerW with local organizations to protect endangered wildlife and the communities most impacted by human-wildlife interaction. Over the years we have equipped rangers, funded veterinarians and surgeries, provided equipment to track and monitor animals rescued from the poaching chain, supported women-led conservation initiatives, funded sustainable farming and bee hive construction to safeguard crops and elephants, and organized game reserve excursions for African children to see wildlife in person and speak with conservationists to learn from the source the challenges facing them. These are just a few ways we work together to find holistic solutions to local conditions.

We film every project for a variety of reasons. It provides full transparency as to where we allocate your funding. The videos can be shared for all to see what initiatives are pressing in Africa currently. It amplifies the voice of our many partners on the ground, in need of support to attract new donors and supporters. Small or large, your donations through Over and Above Africa’s platform impact multiple conservation initiatives. You’ll champion animals, local communities, education, and African conservation.

Change for Change: The Lives Your Donations Helped Save!

Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Nelspruit, South Africa: Our largest project since inception opens this year! Currently, veterinarians in the region have to drive hundreds of km’s to access equipment like X-Ray machines and MRIs, which will now be available for use in our wildlife center - saving countless lives that could otherwise be lost. This will be the only approved rehabilitation center endorsed to treat animals in both the red and white zones. The red zone refers to wildlife infected with Tuberculosis (TB) and the white zone to animals not infected, that traverse Kruger National Park. (click here to learn more)

Cheetah Relocation: In Partnership with the Aspinall Foundation, We Wild Africa, and Babananga Private Game Reserve, we successfully collared 4 endangered cheetahs and relocated them to a new, safe game reserve where they will mate with the cheetahs already on the reserve to strengthen DNA variation and establish new cheetah communities. Less than 6,000 remain in the wild today, which is due primarily to poaching. Additionally, cheetahs are difficult to establish in new areas as they do not do well in altercations with other predators.

Elephant Herd Relocation: In Partnership with Zululand Conservation Trust & Manyoni Private Game Reserve, we safely relocated an elephant herd at risk of being culled to the Babanango Private Game Reserve, South Africa - where new herds will be established on ample acreage and their safety is ensured. It was one of our "largest" projects!

Lioness Rewilding: In Partnership with the Aspinall Foundation and We Wild Africa, we have funded tracking collars, translocation, and the rewilding of four lionesses to Babanango Private Game Reserve in South Africa.

Protecting Pangolins: We have funded multiple pangolin projects from medical treatment and rehabilitation needs, to telemetry tracking and monitoring programs that safeguard their successful relief. Most of the pangolins we've helped to protect were rescued from the poaching trade. Sadly, pangolins are currently the world's most trafficked mammal. Ironically, they are in such high demand for the mythical healing properties of their scales; a false belief as their scales have been proven to hold no medicinal value.

Seed Funding to Help Launch Damien Mander’s Akashinga Female Rangers: When Damien Mander had the extraordinary idea of empowering local women in Africa to become rangers, we were one of a handful of trusted organizations that Damien approached to help him raise the necessary funds to actualize his ambitious mission. He was successful, these women became the Akashingas and are now considered world-famous Rangers by all who know them!

We were honored to be a small part of his incredible dream to create an empowered, all-female team of rangers protecting wildlife. Be a part of ours to build wildlife rehabilitation clinics across Africa!

Highlighting Our Youngest Donor, Lily Anthony!

By Over And Above Africa

Highlighting Our Youngest Donor, Lily Anthony!

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