The Milgis Trust

Category: Milgis lugga, elephants | Date: Jul 06 2008 | By: milgistrust

In October 2006 a little one month old Elephant fell down an 18 foot well, in the lower Milgis… She was found the next morning by the owner of the well, holding her head above the water level, trying to save her ‘little’ life!!..[The story is on our web site Milgis Trust under news 2006… ] 36 hours later, we managed to get her to Daphne Sheldricks orphanage in Nairobi and for a couple of weeks it was touch and go whether she would make it… But not only has she made it, but she has become a valuable asset to the orphanage, in that at her tender young age she is a mini matriach, taking in all the new orphans under her wing… We named her ‘Lesanju’ … After the chief of Latakwen who had died the year before, in very strange circumstances… And what a shame, as he was the most extraordinary leader… He was young, and full of go, and we miss him… But his name sake continues to make DSWT ‘headlines’!!! Good for her…

Lesanju in the Helicopter, on her way to Nairobi.

Chief Lesanju [in Blue]..Captain of Latakwen football team!!.

DSWT supports the Milgis Trust… by employing scouts in the Luggas to make sure the Elephants can find water in the dry season, without the danger of the little ones falling down wells…