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LAKE MANYARA TREE LODGE, TANZANIA
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Lake Manyara Tree 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 – Lake Manyara Tree Lodge has contributed significantly towards improving the prosperity and living conditions
of the local Mayoca community.
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Lake Manyara Tree Lodge Community Achievements:
Lake Manyara Tree Lodge's ground staff have developed close ties with their neighbours, ensuring the ongoing success of numerous empowerment projects.
- USD 27 600 invested in community projects
- 10-bed clinic and nurses' accommodation built
- Access to water provided
- Electrification and solar equipment installed
- Fully equipped classrooms and teachers' houses built
- Desks supplied
- Ongoing Conservation lessons
- AIDS education
- Six secondary school scholarships sponsored
- Numerous employment opportunities created
- The Lodge buys its supplies and building materials from the community
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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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