As you know, the main reason for foun­ding SOS Pri­ma­tes was to help Lwi­ro Pri­ma­tes, as two of the foun­ders had wor­ked with this centre.

Last year we achie­ved our goal of hel­ping other pri­ma­te reha­bi­li­ta­tion cen­tres, as their con­ser­va­tion is a glo­bal issue. Our first step was dedi­ca­ting the 2021 SOS Pri­ma­tes Calen­dar to the Tacu­ga­ma Chim­pan­zee Sanc­tuary in Sie­rra Leo­ne, who are strug­gling during the pan­de­mic due to the can­ce­lla­tion of their acti­vi­ties (gui­ded tours, eco­lod­ge, volun­teer pla­ce­ments, among others), which help them to rai­se dona­tions cove­ring more than 50% of the centre’s costs.

In this incre­dibly dif­fi­cult year we dis­tri­bu­ted a record num­ber of calen­dars: 417 (thanks to the sup­port of the Asso­cia­ció Amics de Tacu­ga­ma, AAT) rai­sing a total of € 1813.68 for the TCS, which will greatly help to feed the 96 chim­pan­zees living the­re.

We don’t want to end this without than­king all the peo­ple who have hel­ped us to dis­tri­bu­te the calen­dar. We won’t name names for fear of for­get­ting someo­ne, but they ran­ge from Bar­ce­lo­na to Madrid, Valen­cia, Tene­ri­fe, Gra­na­da, Can­ta­bria and Soria. And many thanks also to the TCS and the AAT for their faith in us.

We’re already deci­ding the next pri­ma­te sanc­tuary we’re going to sup­port with the 2022 calen­dar. We hope we can count on your support.