Supporting Communities

Despite the downturn in tourism in the past 12 months due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we have remained fully committed to our community projects in line with our company mission. The Smart Learning Project funded by the PD Foundation was launched in Selenkay in March 2021 to empower the community through digital / technological skills.

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) conditions in rural Kenya are a big problem. Our latest project addresses a much-neglected but vital issue for school children in rural Kenya and that is the subject of provision of adequate toilet facilities in the schools. For this project we are partnering with Dig Deep, a UK charity working to transform the lives of children and communities in rural Kenya, to improve facilities for Ilmonchin Primary School in Ol Kinyei Community.

Gamewatchers Safaris and Porini Camps is proudly working with the Maarifa Foundation in a School twinning project established between the schools we support in Selenkay Conservancy and Ol Kinyei Conservancy in Kenya and classes in Australia. The foundation is assisting in paying school fees, run recycling programs and education.

We are supporting the families of Ol Kinyei with our Bursary Fund, alleviating some of the financial burden of the childrens’ education.

The Koiyaki Guiding School provides tourism training for the Maasai. The Scholarship Fund creates opportunities for promising youth who show a passion for wildlife and conservation, but who may not be able to afford the school fees.

We aid the local Maasai in reinforcing their traditionally constructed bomas to help prevent predators from entering the Maasai village and livestock enclosures. The reinforced bomas ensure that predators that target their natural prey are no longer threats to the community.

Rangers are the backbone in ensuring wildlife and habitat security in Kenya’s Parks, Reserves and Conservancies. As our conservancies have grown, so has the need for more rangers. We ensure that our partner communities see a direct benefit from this initiative as we employ 100% of our rangers from within the local villages.

As part of our pledge to support the communities from which we lease conservancy land, we have improved access to safe water with the provision of water tanks. The project now raises funds towards the cost of the ongoing water deliveries.

The objective of the bee keeping project is to empower the youth and women, raise conservation awareness while generating an alternative income for the group, improve livelihood, and conserve bees. The bee keeping project aims to work with youth & women groups around the conservancies we are involved in, as the youth have the highest unemployment and the women are more vulnerable as they need to support their families with limited resources