Sponsoroo is a program to encourage interest, education and awareness about kangaroos. It is SINCERELY hoped that people may come to know and understand kangaroos, really love and appreciate them and will ultimately want to help to protect them.

Through Sponsoroo, people can come to know a Red or Eastern Grey kangaroo of their choice, through photos and correspondence.

Sponsoroo designed and maintains this website.  

     UPDATES, as of  Saturday, 9th August 2008

Roopa, Roobecca's daughter and Chiku, Dotty's son are now growing into beautiful young kangas. Chiku spends most of his time out in the wild with other Eastern Greys but Roopa still mainly stays near the house and has a bottle of milk twice a day plus all sorts of treats! Rocky, Mondi and Elliot still come for their milk too. A number of adult kangaroos, some with joeys in the pouch, are coming to the house area for a bowl of nibbles. That creates the ideal situation for joeys in care because they can interact with the bigger kangas and go out to the bush with them when they are ready to do so. I have a very little joey at the moment, Pip, who watches activities from the safety of his pouch. When he is ready to go outside and hop out of his pouch, he will be able to have the company of other kangas as well. He will not be leaving his pouch for a number of months yet!

The kangaroos featured on this Sponsoroo website are only a handful of the kangaroos being cared for here at "Narimba". New kangaroos are coming in all the time but I cannot feature them all here, sorry. If you would like to know more please let me know.

It always heartens me when I hear from other people who genuinely love and respect our kangaroos, thank you. They too realise that we must love, respect and look after our precious wildlife and their habitat. We must learn as much as we can about their needs and ways. We must treat each being as an individual as we would within our own species.

Each joey I raise, each kangaroo with whom I interact teaches me so much about their own kind and their environment. I realise how blessed I am to have this opportunity. They are precious treasures and I so wish that others would treat them as such.

See the photo of the beautiful female Red up in the top left hand corner of this page? Did you know that the position she is sitting in, is the one a female kangaroo takes when she gives birth? While she is sitting, balanced like so, the joey makes its way, all by itself without help from mother, from the cloaca, using its little tiny hands, up through the mother’s fur and into the pouch, where it latches on to one of 4 teats. At that stage it is only about 2cm long! It is an amazing feat of nature. 

All the paperwork for Sponsoroo is done by me, here in Australia. Please factor that into your time for postage, especially when the Sponsoroo is for a gift. For instance, from here to UK and Europe the post takes about 5 to 7 days, to USA 6 to 10 days . Many thanks.