This week I am working in our Satellite Camp project. This project takes place in the surroundings of Tsavo West National Park, and was started in partnership with the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA). Here, we work with communities composed of ex-poachers, who voluntarily decided to abandon poaching in profit af a more sustainable way of live. We help them in the process, giving the support for capacity building and the development of their new livelihoods.
The project encompasses several communities, but this week we are working with one called Kasaini Lepolesy (which means more or less "Those close to Kasaini, one of the elders). Is a very scattered group composed mainly by Maasai people, but, surprisingly enough, there are also some representatives of other tribal groups. The projects that we are carrying on with them range from the construction of a store facility to the development of a business system for trading with cattle skins using that very same storage, passing by training courses in new cultures and jewelry workshops to try to generate an alternative income adapting traditional Maasai bead jewelry to the Westerners that are intended to buy it.
And the place is simply amazing. In the middle of the Savannah, we can see Kilimanjaro from our tents, and zebras, wildebeests, dik-diks and impalas (among other animals that are not so easy to see) roam freely around the camp. And the community members are extremely nice and charming.
But I am not going to bore you more with useless descriptions. Here you have some photos:
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| Kilimanjaro, down there, rising above the clouds. |
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| Sunrise in the Savannah. Yes, we wake up before sunrise! |
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| A wildebeest. |
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| My friends the zebras. |
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