This is Juma, a freelance guide in Kenya, to whom we donated a pair of Trailfinder II 8x42 binoculars at the end of 2013.
Leif Dehlin, a Swedish tourist, came to us and asked if we could help Juma with a decent hardwearing pair of optics he could use in his work. Mr Dehlin paid for the postage and the costs of getting the binoculars through the Kenyan customs and into the hands of Juma.
These are other individuals and organisations that benefited from either a donation or supported purchase of equipment in 2013:
A Robin Song Children's Hospice - www.arobinssong.co.uk
Batumi Raptor Count - www.batumiraptorcount.org
Birding For All - www.birdingforall.com
Buglife Members Day - www.buglife.org.uk
British Divers Marine Life Rescue - www.bdmlr.org.uk
Dorset Wildlife Trust - www.dorsetwildlifetrust.org.uk
The Gaia Trust Photography Competition - www.gaiatrust.org.uk
Helen & Douglas House Hospice via HMP Grendon
Jason Ridge Nature Photography
Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust - www.lincstrust.org.uk
Ornithological Society of the Middle East - www.osme.org
Scottish Seabird Centre Photography Competition - www.seabird.org