Monday, February 25, 2008

More Community News


Even more sponsors have pledged to fund students at Matipwili Secondary School. We now have 40 sponsored students. Most of them are able to stay in their home town of Matipwili but several are at school away in other villages. Some of those sponsored are orphans none have two parents.


It is just wonderful to visit the school and tell a student that their struggle to raise funds is over, they can concentrate on enjoying their learning.

Friday, February 8, 2008

Kisampa's New Blog


February 9th 2008


Dear Friends of Kisampa,

Welcome to our new blog. We are very excited to offer you this chance to keep in touch with our news and developments.


We will give you news of the camp, the community and any other issues relating to Kisampa.


Camp


We now have two new and beautiful accommodation "bandas". These are built out of natural materials, are very open and airy and feed back from guests has been very postive. They love the feeling of being surrounded by nature and yet secure. We are now in the process of building the third one and our local artisans are rightly very proud of their work.


Community


School is in. Friends of Kisampa are now sponsoring 34 secondary school students through the five years of their secondary education. This is an incredible achievement - well done and thankyou. This is 15% of all the kids at Matiwpili secondary school. We are now working hard on raising the money for a water catchment system and other social projects.


Conservation


We are still experiencing dry weather and the elephants are moving back into the valley to eat the Marula fruit. Sadly we have found a number of snares and have boosted our patrols (hiring two local Masai to help), as well as talking to the surrounding villages to ask for their help with this problem.


Recent visitors


We have had several interesting families from Australia and England, all with young children and we have had a lot of fun introducing them to the African scene and our village friends. They seem to particuarly like to play with the kids in the village.