Cub-Scouts Leaping Wolf Global Challenge rewards Deutsche Internationale Schule Johannesburg learner with certificate
To earn a wolf badge, a cub needs to complete a few tasks, including completing a personal challenge.
Deutsche Internationale Schule Johannesburg learner, Christopher Bouwer received a nod in the form of a certificate from the Cub-Scouts Leaping Wolf Global Challenge.
For the wolf badge challenge, Christopher chose poaching as his topic and found out about K9 Project Watchdog and the K9 Anti-Poaching Units in wildlife parks across South Africa.
Christopher’s mother, Ute Schwaibold explained what the challenge was about, “The Leaping Wolf badge is a challenge created for every cub in their final year in the cub Pack (children between 7 and 11 years), it is an award that a cub can earn as they progress through their scouting journey. “
She added that achieving the award is often associated with the highest rank or achievement that a cub can earn before moving on to the next level, the scouts.
To earn this badge, a cub needs to complete a few tasks, including completing a personal challenge and learning about a global challenge. For the global challenge they need to identify a global issue such as poverty, conservation or water and sanitation and what they can do to help. So, they need to raise awareness about the issue and usually collect money or donations to help.
Schwaibold noted that the Grade 5 learner chose poaching as his global issue because he loves visiting Kruger and other nature reserves.
“We often speak about how some people illegally kill these animals for money and how our rhino populations have dropped drastically because of it. To do something to help, Christopher looked for a charity or similar and so came across K9 Project Watchdog and the K9 Anti-Poaching Units in wildlife parks across South Africa.”
She concluded that the dogs and their handlers proved to be powerful weapons and absolute game changers in the fight against poaching in South Africa, and Christopher deemed this to be a worthy cause for his fundraising effort and raised R2000.
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