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ECOTOURISM AT NGORONGORO CRATER LODGE, TANZANIA
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Ngorongoro Crater Lodge 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 organisation – Ngorongoro Crater Lodge has contributed significantly towards improving the prosperity and living conditions of the Maasai community.
About 42 000 Maasai pastoralists inhabit the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, tending their herds of cattle, sheep and goats, and living in peaceful co-existence with the wildlife. Grazing of livestock on the Crater floor is permitted, offering a glimpse of bygone Africa.
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NGORONGORO CRATER LODGE COMMUNITY ACHIEVEMENTS:
- USD30 000 invested in community projects
- Electrification of the clinic and school at Karatu
- Built teachers’ accommodation and two new classrooms at Misigyo - Olorobi Primary School
- Built an office, two new classrooms and refurbished another two at Endagshang’Weti Primary School
- Built one new classroom and refurbished six at Mokilal Primary School
- Over 1000 desks provided for the above schools
- Desks built for Embarwai Secondary School - Endulen
- Ongoing Conservation Lessons
- Visits to Maasai villages increases local revenue
- Skills training – carving, building, weaving and ironmongery
- Employment opportunities provided
- Implementation of Edu-peg – a self-corrective early learning tool
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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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