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Our mission is to enable skilled business people in Europe and the US to help to lift communities in Africa out of poverty by providing targeted and effective mentoring support to local entrepreneurs, and in doing so to create jobs and prosperity.
We specialise in allowing people to have a real impact in a short time, by ensuring that they are properly inducted and prepared for their assignment, are well matched to entrepreneurs on the basis of available and required skills, and are supported throughout their stay by our local team of Kenyan business experts.
As part of our core ethos, we are committed to operating responsibly by ensuring that:
- we focus above all on effective mentoring, and only match volunteers to entrepreneurs where there is both genuine need and a real likelihood that the mentoring relationship will be productive
- our local staff are paid well and are given real opportunities for personal development
- we minimise any potential negative cultural impacts by sensitising our volunteers to local practices and values, and to the two-way nature of the learning process
- we support the local economy as far as possible by employing local staff and using local suppliers, in addition to the positive impact of our core service
- we minimise our impact on the local environment by working with local suppliers who use sustainable materials and forms of power as far as possible, including accommodating our volunteers on a small eco-lodge campus run by a local conservationist
All volunteers receive and are asked to sign up to a Responsible Travel Code of Conduct.
We invite every traveller who books a holiday via us to send in a review. Because we don't run the holidays they're completely independent and unedited... remember to read between the lines though, as two people on the same holiday can have different views!
