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Leela Hazzah is a women with a passion, and a commitment to save the lions in Africa. The population of lions in Africa today in down to 30,000 from where it was a century ago at 3 million. This is due to tribal members hunting lions, not for food, but for revenge against eating their livestock. Hazzah is committed to convincing these killers into becoming guardians to these lions. She has come up with a foundation into supplying these guardians with lion trackers in order to keep up with the lion movements. She says that when she first arrived she saw no lions, now she sees them everywhere.
People all around the world can look at this story and feel invited to go out and change the world. Though this victory is small in the eyes of say cancer or world hunger, if everyone looked at helping the world out the same way Leela Hazzah did the world would be a better place.
Leela Hazzah is a women with a passion, and a commitment to save the lions in Africa. The population of lions in Africa today in down to 30,000 from where it was a century ago at 3 million. This is due to tribal members hunting lions, not for food, but for revenge against eating their livestock. Hazzah is committed to convincing these killers into becoming guardians to these lions. She has come up with a foundation into supplying these guardians with lion trackers in order to keep up with the lion movements. She says that when she first arrived she saw no lions, now she sees them everywhere.
People all around the world can look at this story and feel invited to go out and change the world. Though this victory is small in the eyes of say cancer or world hunger, if everyone looked at helping the world out the same way Leela Hazzah did the world would be a better place.