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I have recently returned from a week in the Kalahari Desert in Namibia spent with the !Gubi family a small group of San bushmen, women and children near the Botswana border.
Some of the pictures are shown above and in a slideshow. they are wonderful musicians and as such are supported by Indigenous People a charity that promotes not only traditional music and dance
but also the visual arts, story-telling, documentary and feature films from and about indigenous cultures. In addition to marketing and managing tours of the UK and Europe by indigenous performance groups, they will also be hosting indigenous arts spaces in festivals - combining workshops, performances, film screenings, art exhibitions, crafts stalls and discussion fora to celebrate and promote indigenous wisdom, knowledge and spirituality.

The concern that came out of this trip for the bushmen and their threatened way of life has led me to Protimos Foundation (Lawyers challenging Poverty) whichwas founded by Fiona Darroch,
a London-based barrister specialising in Environmental Law.
Protimos provides access to justice to indigenous and marginalised communities and is a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee, governed by a Board of Directors.
Protimos assists communities in becoming articulate and effective participants in the development of their sustainable future.
In particular they have the San Hoodia Project where Protimos lawyers, in partnership with the San peoples, will provide the San with vital legal protection
for their knowledge of the appetite-suppressing Hoodia plant (intellectual property) and its unlawful exploitation, thus helping to provide a substantial income for the most marginalised people in Southern Africa.
Please help them anyway you can!