N/a'an ku sê - "God watches over us" - Just Buy the Shirt

What can you do to save a species from extinction?  It's a tough question and one that adults have a hard time answering.  When Joris Hutchison was six years old he decided to do something to save cheetahs in hopes that the species would not become extinct in his lifetime.

Ever since, Joris and his mom have been fundraising to try to help the cheetahs. They have an online fundraiser, have run many lemonade stands, wrote to businesses for support, sold flowers and held rollerskating parties.

During  a trip to Africa, Joris and his mother visited N/a'an ku sê in Namibia.  Almost immediately Joris knew that N/a'an ku sê was the place that he wanted to support.

N/a'an ku sê is a wildlife sanctuary that cares for injured and orphaned wildlife, with the ultimate goal to re-release them in the wild. One of their efforts that has been proven to be highly successful is talking to farmers and helping them come up with better solutions than to shoot the predators (cheetahs, leopards, wild dogs and hyenas). This is called human-wildlife mitigation. It's so important because with every farmer that they get to agree to not shoot cheetahs, animals survive and have a larger safe-zone to exist!

N/a'an ku sê contributes to the community in a variety of ways.  They support a health clinic, school and Namibia's only winery.  The goal is conservation as a community effort not an imposed standard. Amazingly, but a nine year old gets it more than most adults.

Buy a shirt, they are cool and N/a'an ku sê roughly translates as "God watches over us" in the the indigenous San language.  So that's something to tell someone when they ask you what N/a'an ku sê means.