A new morning at the orphanage with Khanyisa and her friends, carers Stavros & Herman, Adine, and sheepy pals, Lammie and Nungu!
Stavros joined us for a few weeks, breaking his retirement to help us with Fenya and to train a new carer at the orphanage. He has now returned home to his family in Zimbabwe. Every moment with him is a blessing of calm, joy and wisdom for all of us. Khanyisa definitely has a soft spot for him too!
Khanyisa tries two very clever tricks in this new video - opening the door to her nursery and listening to her milk being made in the kitchen through the wall. That sound of the blender has come to mean milk time and this gal was hungry! Stavros soon arrives with Khanyisa's 6 am bottle and she downs it in seconds.
Khanyisa, Adine & Stavros enjoy some time out in the garden, picking grass for Khanyisa, playing with that favourite tyre tube, giving Lammie & Nungu little head rubs, and inspecting growing Khanyisa's incredibly well healed scars. Over a year ago her scars were very much still visible, but now you would have to really look for them to see them on her albino skin. It's amazing how well her body has tried to blur out those wounds and memories, and let Sunshine move on in her journey.
Lammie and Nungu are as thick as thieves! Always side by side throughout the day and night. They both sleep together with Khanyisa in the very cosy nursery, keeping each other entertained whenever they wake from sleeping.
The garden is still full of lush and delicious grass and Stavros has to tempt Khanyisa away from it to take her to join the herd for the day's roaming.
Adine shares a look at the behind-the-scenes activities with our incredible team seeing to the hard labour of cleaning up after elephants. The terrific red tractor comes to their aid, to collect all the dung and deposit it in different areas in the reserve, such as to fit pot holes in the dirt roads and erosion spots, and to use as compost.
And then it's back to the gardens and the two woolly custodians!
