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This venture supports both the HISANI Orphanage project and the Kagando community development project.
Kagando Project By helping to provide a reliable water source in the area, neighbouring villages can replicate the facility for their own use. Thus, the presence of fresh running water will spread throughout the community. By developing the eco-tourism potential of the area the income of the Community Centre will increase. This means that they will have more funds to spend on water sanitation and the hospital will be less dependable on charitable donations.
HISANI Project "Hisani" is Swahili for "kindness." Hisani in Tanzania is an NGO whose main focus is the support of orphaned children in the Mwanza Region. These children are forced onto the streets, where they collect rotten food and beg to survive. On the streets, they no longer possess the right to be treated when they are sick, to obtain an education, or of sleeping under a roof on a full stomach. Hisani provides orphans and street children with these basic rights. At the orphanage, children are taught how to read, write, garden, work with wood, and play sports. They are given a chance of a better life!
As well as our guides you are also accompanied by local guides and project partners. Groups are kept to a maximum of sixteen people, big enough to help the local communities, but not big enough to have a negative affect themselves. Back in the UK we also have our own environmental policy and we believe this is where responsible travel should start, prior to departure. It is simple things that help and perhaps the biggest impact in the office comes from recycling paper, as a rule where possible we print on both sides of paper and it is not until it is completely beyond use that we then send it to be recycled.
All our development projects have been carefully chosen to satisfy several criteria. They are of definable and sustainable benefit to the indigenous community and allow us the opportunity to work in tandem with the host community. Funding for the projects comes directly from the our Trust. For each person that joins the us, we, as a company, give at least US $400 (GB £215) to the Trust. 100% of the money the Trust receives is spent on the projects.
All development projects are over-seen by a resident Project Manager whose role is to co-ordinate the adventures, the funding and the project's objectives. We are committed to direct patronage within the local economies of the countries in which we operate. We pay local tutors to teach languages; accommodation throughout the adventure is in locally owned hostels or based in the project locations; and the entire expedition budget will be spent by the team at local "grass roots" level
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