Rhino Donate site

"Football is called the greatest game,
so why can't the greatest game
save the greatest animal?"

Wild and Free Foundation is on a mission

To engage and uplift marginalized communities surrounding wildlife reserves in Africa by providing creative opportunities in sports, education, and technology to connect people to online education and the global economy with the vision of eliminating the reliance on illegal wildlife poaching.

We are instituting small changes that will have a huge impact. We think of it as a ripple affect, where we are tackling hunger, idleness, boredom and poverty with avant-garde philanthropic projects. The ripple affect for everyone is the conservation of endangered wilderness and species.

Wild and Free Foundation, the non-profit organization that created the Rhino Cup Champions League in Mozambique, and currently expanding to Namibia and Zimbabwe, has been working in the southern hemisphere since 2011. Matt Bracken, President and Co-Founder, reflects on why he chooses to protect rhinos, wildlife and habitats in Africa.

See Matt Bracken's reason
for protecting rhinos >>

ENGAGE

WITH POACHING COMMUNITIES

This is an image that depicts human rights initiatives. This picture was taken by Wild and Free Foundation in Mozambique. We are a 501c3 registred company and we donate to African Children.

Local communities living next to wildlife reserves are the most crucial change agents in conservation.

UPLIFT

COMMUNITIES DEPENDENT ON RHINO POACHING

Supporting positive initiatives for uplifting communities living next to wildlife reserves.

PROTECT

THE AFRICAN RHINOS

Rhinos in the wild are really beautiful to see and so triggers animal conservation. This picture was taken by Wild and Free Foundation in Africa. We are a 501c3 registred company and we donate to African Children.

The rhino is a keystone species. Where a rhino lives, 80 times more edible grasses grow, sustaining 130 more mammal species.

Wild and Free Foundation engages with poaching communities to
uplift the people that are dependent on rhino poaching,
and to protect the African Rhinos.

"We have a dream,
of nature thriving wild and free, and humans being healthier and happier because of it."
MATT BRACKEN
Co-Founder, Wild and Free Foundation

Matt Bracken - WFF is a 501(c)(3) Non-profit Organization

We exist to decrease poaching of the African rhinoceros by engaging marginalized poaching communities and finding alternatives to poaching

"Thank you for all the effort and attention dedicated to this community of the Administrative Post of Sabié, in the fight for the change of behavior and recognition that nature needs us and especially wildlife."
Ivo Silva
RCCL Committee Member

“We humans, send man to the moon, surely we can find another way to protect the rhino.”
Vincent Barkas

Vincent Barkas - WFF’s anti-poaching campaign is promoting healthy and active lifestyles. It is uplifting communities by boosting self-esteem and empowerment. It also teaches these villages the importance of developing leadership skills, teamwork, strategic thinking, dedication, determination and goal-setting.

Wild and Free Foundation is a 501(c)(3) Non-profit Organization

The WFF is a registered non-profit funding model (501c3 organization) in the USA. Wild and Free Foundation relies on donations (tax deductible) to continue its valuable work. Being a registered section 501c3 nonprofit organization, the WFF is exempt from some federal income taxes.
The WFF’s primary activities are charitable through fostering an amateur sports competition that helps prevent cruelty to animals, poaching of wildlife and the destruction of wildlife habitats.

WFF’s soccer league (football) campaign is promoting healthy and active lifestyles. Through their project, the Rhino Cup Champions League, the WFF is assisting with the uplifting process of some previously impoverished and idle communities in rural Africa, by providing them with much-needed income opportunities and healthy outdoor entertainment, boosting their self-esteem and developing empowerment. The WFF organization with its RCCL projects, is creating opportunities for young entrepreneurs to earn an income by selling their goods to the thousands of spectators at soccer league fixtures.

WFF engages with the communities, living in rural Africa villages, on the importance of developing business leadership, teamwork, strategic thinking, dedication, determination and goal-setting.
These attributes are then transferred as skills into their personal lives. As the young children in Africa look up to their peers, the new generation of Africa starts to practice the same attributes.

Wild and Free Foundation is not only assisting on improving lives, but it is also saving the lives of the young men and the lives of the rhinos, drawn into illegal wildlife poaching, and other endangered wildlife species, whose very precarious existence is balancing on a knife’s edge.

Donations too Wild and Free Foundation give children in rural Africa the help and alternative opportunities they need to build and develop their skills.

Learn more about the Rhino Cup or donate to rhinos.

WILD AND FREEFOUNDATION