One of the challenges faced while hosting campers is that hired camp facilities, although offering a fun experience, are not meeting JFF’s standards. There is also an ever-increasing demand coming from the hospitals and other organisations for vulnerable children to attend camp and often these venues are over-subscribed, giving limited camping opportunities. 

Just Footprints Foundation has therefore acquired its own land in the malaria free, newly designated Dinokeng Big 5 Game Reserve near Hammanskraal, north of Pretoria and will develop a unique children’s ‘African Bush’ camp to accommodate 100 campers and 50 volunteers and support staff per camp. This will require a focused capital funding effort to raise the funds to refund the purchase price of the camp site and the construction of ‘Camp Footprints’.

Through the support of donors JFF will develop the first of its kind camp site in South Africa, designed for fun with a therapeutic impact; a camp that will positively change lives and will include:

- an eco-friendly infrastructure;

- a medical facility;

- facilities for disabled and wheelchair users; and

- professional medical staff, counsellors and volunteers who offer psycho-socio support for all the campers.

Our ‘Camp Gift Chart’ will be launched soon where individuals, corporates and Foundations will have the occassion to partner in this exciting initiative by sponsoring for example the medical unit and medical equipment; camper bungalows and the furnishings; the dining hall; the kitchen and equipping it; the boma; the eco science discovery centre; outdoor adventure and play equipment; the climbing wall; the wheelchair acces’ible swimming pool. Naming right opportunities will be offer on sponsored  structures or equipment at ‘Camp Footprints’.

A capital fundraising strategy is being implemented and our business plan is available on request.

Download Dinokeng Game Reserve Opening Invite

Preliminary Camp Site Layout Plan

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Our new neighbours at Camp Footprints in their holding boma before they get released in to the game reserve