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Garreth is the Waterworth Expeditions , Lengthen Your Stride and Reboot Leadership expedition coordinator. He is a highly qualified Safari Guide, Camel Expedition Leader and Expedition Medic. He has led and conducted over 350 safari’s and explored and navigated thousands of square miles of African deserts and savanna’s. Garreth was born in South Africa in 1980. His love of adventure started at the age of 17 when he led a 437 km bicycle expedition from Bulawayo to Victoria Falls in order to promote the ResponseAbility Alliance programme THIRST Things First, to support the construction of a water pipeline from the Zambezi River to the semi desert region of Matabeleland, Zimbabwe. In 1997 he qualified as a Hunter & Guide with Zimbabwe National Parks, the most diverse and in depth course of its kind in Africa. His areas of expertise included the identification of mammals, birds, reptiles and insects in Southern Africa and the behavioral, breeding and feeding habits of each species. The practical and medicinal uses of plants and trees in southern Africa, hunting, tracking, ballistics and survival skills in remote areas. His safari experience commenced in 1998 as a guide with the private safari company Duma Safaris located south of Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe. In 2001 he was recruited for a prime position by the Malilangwe Trust:, a private conservation area located north of Gonarezhou National Park in Zimbabwe. Garreth was based at Pamushana Lodge, one of the most luxurious safari lodges in Africa. Here he coordinated and led numerous safaris including game drives, boating and fishing trips, bush treks, and leadership training camps for youth interested in wildlife and conservation. In 2004 he successfully curated the ResponseAble Arts project: Tshuma Humour an initiative to assist African artists with AIDS. Working with the Visual Arts Association of Bulawayo (VAAB) and the famous Tshuma family of sculptors. He held exhibitions of their work in France, Belgium and the U.K. His experience in the Sinai Desert began in 2006. After a number of expeditions throughout southern Sinai, he qualified as Desert Expedition Leader in 2007. He was a coordinating team member of the Sinai Youth Expedition in 2007 and expedition coordinator of the Sinai Gulf to Gulf Expedition in 2009.
garreth@responseabilityalliance.com Tel: Farnham, Surrey UK Int+ (0) 1252 719 016
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