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ECOTOURISM AT KICHWA TEMBO, KENYA
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Kichwa Tembo is committed to CC Africa’s core principle: Care of the Land, Care of the Wildlife, Care of the people.
CC Africa’s focus: Community equity, income generation, education and health care are a primary concern. In consultation with community organisations such as the Africa Foundation (originally founded by CC Africa, now a not-for-profit rural development organization), Kichwa Tembo has contributed significantly towards improving the prosperity and living conditions of the Maasai community.
Kichwa Tembo’s landlords are the Ilkarekeshe Maasai tribe who receive economic benefits through the concession fees paid to them by CC Africa, as well as rental fees for traversing rights in the Masai Mara Reserve. Kichwa Tembo offers a glimpse into the Maasai’s unique pastoralist, nomadic lifestyle and blood-and-milk diet, virtually unchanged over centuries. The Maasai proudly maintain their traditional lifestyle as cattle-herders while remaining our partners in the protection of wildlife.
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KICHWA TEMBO’S COMMUNITY ACHIEVEMENTS:
- A pioneer bee-keeping project at Kipas and Ndorobo villages
- School building projects: Emurutot and Oloopikindongoi Primary Schools
- Supplies and equipment donated to schools
- Ongoing conservation lessons to local school children
- Clinic at Kichwa Tembo
- AIDS/HIV awareness and education programmes
- Ongoing enrichment initiatives
- Visits to local Maasai villages are recommended, increasing local revenue
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Ecotourism in Africa: Our guests play a critical role in helping CC Africa realise our dream and vision: to create a model in wise land management, integrating international travellers and rural people to their mutual benefit and demonstrating that wildlife can be preserved on a sustainable basis by all.
Positive Health Programme:
CC Africa strongly believes in its people and was recently listed as one of three finalists in the Investor in People category of the 2005 Tourism for Tomorrow Awards. The October 2005 edition of Africa Geographic featured an article on AIDS and conversation, and highlighted the activities and
programmes that various African companies are implementing in order to increase AIDS awareness and, in doing so, empower the communities taking
care of some of the world's richest wilderness regions.
"Probably the most attractive program ... is that of CC Africa... CC Africa launched a Positive Health program in 2003 and in April and May last year ran two seven-day courses.... Their approach focuses on home-based care, gardens, counseling techniques and gender issues.... The health of the
habitat is critical to the health of the individuals in it.... The conservation industry is uniquely positioned to take the treatment of
HIV/AIDS in radically new directions.... Benefits [of the program] include acquiring 'hard skills' such as maintaining clean water, producing food, and home-based methods of dealing with illnesses that are not life threatening.... It takes only the will of ecologically minded people to make
sure that the wild places are not lost."
Africa Geographic, October 2005
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