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We built the Big Greenhouse in Hwange, where we grow organic butternut, zucchini, celery and tomatoes.

We added the Orchard to our Grow Spaces, planting 123 fruit trees, 40 of which are mango and 10 are mulberry.

We received a gift of a very good young male goat, who we named Manny as he was given to us by our friend Manolly.

We received a gift of two pigs from traditional Chief Nekatambe, the gift was for Danny. In preparation for this gift, we had to build our first pig pens. Our first pigs have been named Victor and Victoria (after our first employee, who has become like a son). The pigs have become quite useful as they consume most of the garden waste and food scraps from our many kitchens.

We renovated Gobelo Marketplace, for the third time, due to projected growth of our tourism business.  The new space includes a small shop where ELISA products will be displayed and sold to visitors passing through the area, which is the reason why the name changed from Gobelo Bar & Grill to Gobelo Marketplace.

We produced our very first ELISA postcards, which were distributed at a medical technology meeting in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States of America.  This was before we had even created the ELISA web portal.

We hosted the Ambassador from the Embassy of Italy at Gwango Wildlife Park for a familiarization tour of the state of anti-poaching in the Hwange region.  As part of the tour, we arranged for the Ambassador and his delegation to meet with key conservation experts involved in anti-poaching in Hwange and Victoria Falls.

In August, Elisabeth was invited to provide the keynote remarks as guest of honor for the Matebeleland North Provincial Annual Arts, Science, Sports Festival.  At the event, she pledged on behalf of Gwango Wildlife park, to donate ZWL $5,000 in support of students participating in the program.

We acquired our first riverfront property on Msuna Island.  Plans for Msuna will soon take shape, but in preparation for this, we held a community meeting on 11 November 2011, which was attended by Chief Whange, village heads and government stakeholders.  At the event, we pledged to create a Women’s Center in Msuna where workshops for skill development could be held.  It will also be a place where entrepreneurial ventures will be developed to support the community there.  The meeting became contentious when the topic of conservation came up, with a handful of villagers refuting the fact that riverbank cultivation was harmful to the ecosystem. The night of the meeting, a pangolin emerged from the riverbank, where villagers had burned and cleared the area for cultivation.  ZimParks officials requested that Elisabeth care for the pangolin for several hours while a vehicle was summoned from Hwange National Park to translocate the pangolin.  Distressed by the notion that the pangolin would have to travel the long and stressful journey  to another park, Elisabeth immediately drafted a proposal for the creation of a Pangolin Sanctuary in Msuna so future pangolins rescued from the Msuna, Binga and Mlibizi areas would have a safe haven in their original habitat.