Nsonga Game Management and Lodges strongly believe in supporting and uplifting our local community.

With this in mind, Nsonga has pledged ZMK240000.00 per annum to various projects ranging from building new schools to sinking boreholes in our three chiefdoms. We also pay the salaries of three Teachers at various schools and provide bursaries to 3 children. 50% of the venison goes to the community.

Over the past ten years, we have undertaken various Community projects and provided a number of bursaries. We have paid to put two young women from the Kaingu and Chikaza Manyama communities through Nursing degrees, and one of them, Mary Namaambo, now holds the position of senior nurse at Bushinga Clinic in the Kaingu Community; the other, Linda Shimbuwa, is currently looking for an opening at one of the rural clinics in our area.

In building the lodge, we used locally sourced materials and engaged community members to source them for us. In addition to employing staff from our local community, we have also provided them with many new skills when we started our Lodge building project.

Teaching on the job is an ongoing process.  Itumbi-Kaingu Trust has built a primary school that serves approximately 250 children. The trust has also provided the school with running water.

We have built a teacher’s house. There are many ongoing projects that we are involved in. We contribute ZMK60000.00 per annum to assist with the anti-poaching efforts in the Namwala GMA 

We also paid for Trinah Muleya of the Kaingu Community to do her last year of Nursing and paid all her exam fees for 2025. She has been working in her spare time at Itumbi Clinic in Itumbi Village, Kaingu Community, along with her husband, Mike Shimanvule, who has completed his Midwifery, and we are currently sponsoring him in an Advanced Diploma in HIV Nurse Practitioner.

We have also sponsored bursaries for a number of Department of National Parks and Wildlife Officers to further their education. For example, Harrison Kabelenga, with our assistance, has completed his BSc Wildlife Management Studies. Talison Tembo to complete his Bachelor of Development Studies.  We also purchased a laptop for Kevin Sipiso the Ranger at Nalusanga. We are committed to continuing with our bursary programs.

Apart from this with assistance from our clients and the Amy Bell Foundation “The Blue Bag” we were able to give a considerable donation of School Reading Books, Stationary, Footballs, Pots and Plates to the Itumbi Primary School last year.

We have purchased 5 buffalo bicycles for Game Ranger International Scouts so that they can patrol our area, and have supplied them with camping equipment. Game Rangers International assists us with our anti-poaching efforts.  We frequently supply diesel fuel and rations to DNPW/ GRI Officers and scouts to assist with patrols and removal of illegal encroachment. In 2024, they removed more than 3500 illegal farmers from the hunting area, and this year, they have already removed hundreds of illegal miners from the Hunting area.

To assist with communications between Mwengwa gate, where GRI is based, we put in Starlink last year and pay the monthly subscriptions.

We have watched our game population grow exponentially over the past 10 years despite the constant challenges we have with illegal encroachment.