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SANDIBE SAFARI LODGE, BOTSWANA
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Sandibe Safari 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 – CC Africa has contributed significantly towards improving the prosperity and living conditions of rural communities.
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Vegetable garden project in the Okavango Delta, Botswana:
Sandibe Safari Lodge was instrumental in helping the vegetable and herb garden project of four women within the Shorobe community. With the help of the Africa Foundation, Tshele Segobanyana, Leponye Boitumelo, Segakgamaleng Bakae and Maria Kangodi were assisted in renting a piece of land, water pump and irrigation pipes from the land board. This enabled them to grow a wide range of vegetables and fresh herbs which they sold to neighbouring lodges, including Sandibe Safari Lodge and Nxabega Okavango Safari Camp, and to other suppliers in Maun. They have since relocated their garden to a new plot of land which was obtained through the chief and land board. Money made from their original garden was used for fencing, and a loan from the National Development Bank was used to sink a borehole where a good supply of water was found. Africa Foundation funds have also been used to purchase a vehicle for the community to transport the produce to Sandibe, Nxabega and Maun.
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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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