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.
3 comments:
Hi Kisampa!
Congratulations on setting up your blog and I hope that you will keep us all up to date with some of those wonderful stories in your Habari Newsletters!
It has been one year sense we were in kisampa and miss everyone very much. Dallas is hoping to see the kids at Christmas again.Please tell all the kids in the village we think of them often and hope they don't forget us before we return!! God Bless Dallas Honey Bee
Hi! Kisampa, I came to understand of Kisampa through my ex-student working with Kigelia Camp (Ray OleTekiishe)and I was like saying this came to my understanding too late.Deeply I real feel the sense of eco-tourism with all the blends of responsible tourism in what Kisampa is doing. We real need such initiatives in many of our rural areas in Tanzania where nature has been so colouful and intact through the efforts of the local people,of whom many of the investors in tourism sector have left them behind. Kisampa, keep it up.
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