Project Leaders
Volunteer Work with Desert Elephants in Namibia

Rachel Harris - Project Coordinator

Rachel, originally from the UK has spent the past 5 years in Events fundraising for a high profile charity in London, UK. In the main she organised overseas fundraising expeditions and has taken large groups of volunteers to Namibia, Ecuador, China, Brazil, Morocco and New Zealand. Through these trips she developed a passion for travel and a firm belief in sustainable tourism and the ability of individuals to make a huge difference through projects such as this one. Through expeditions and trips to Namibia she fell in love with the country where she now lives and co ordinates all the volunteers.

Johannes Haasbroek - Project Leader

Johannes hails originally from South Africa where he was raised with a close affinity with nature. He studied political science, development studies and anthropology, later moving on to nature conservation. Over the past 10 years he has worked in various parts of the conservation sphere in Southern Africa, from game reserve management, professional hunting, tour guiding, reserve development, anti poaching, guide training, rural development and more. Over the past six years he has been living in Namibia, first working with Save the Rhino Trust, developing systems to get conservation independent of outside funding. In this time he witnessed the expansion of the elephant populations into the south, and realized he should apply a multi-angled approach to help solve the problem. Hence the creation of the project. Between conservation work he runs an expedition company, and leads wilderness expeditions on foot in support of conservation projects.