Our Impact Safaris & Its Contribution Towards a Sustainable Africa
There has been an interesting shift in travel trends and behaviour over the past few years where guests are increasingly more intentional about where they invest their time, money, and effort. It’s becoming less about consuming and more about how one is adding value in a meaningful way through how they participate and travel. Guests are consciously thinking about how their buying behaviour, travel and stay while on safari in Africa are contributing to the local community, the environment and conservation.
The Impact Safari collection aims to cater to this need. By creating an experience for guests, where they see the wildlife that they travelled thousands of miles for, while they are learning and contributing towards the communities, the people, the eco-systems, and conservation that makes Africa the Mother continent. This collection takes guests away from just being spectators in a game vehicle to being contributors and collaborators in the areas and wildlife spaces that they are visiting. These safaris create an opportunity for guests to spend some time in the local community, learn about our foundation projects in the area, and volunteer at some of our projects.
Our Impact Safaris & Its Contribution Towards a Sustainable Africa
There has been an interesting shift in travel trends and behaviour over the past few years where guests are increasingly more intentional about where they invest their time, money, and effort. It’s becoming less about consuming and more about how one is adding value in a meaningful way through how they participate and travel. Guests are consciously thinking about how their buying behaviour, travel and stay while on safari in Africa are contributing to the local community, the environment and conservation.
The Impact Safari collection aims to cater to this need. By creating an experience for guests, where they see the wildlife that they travelled thousands of miles for, while they are learning and contributing towards the communities, the people, the eco-systems, and conservation that makes Africa the Mother continent. This collection takes guests away from just being spectators in a game vehicle to being contributors and collaborators in the areas and wildlife spaces that they are visiting. These safaris create an opportunity for guests to spend some time in the local community, learn about our foundation projects in the area, and volunteer at some of our projects.
Positively impacting learners through good nutrition
Through our learner development impact safari, guests can volunteer at the local schools that we support by partnering with the African Bush Camps Foundation to help prepare and serve meals at the nutrition programs and help with any small school improvements and renovations that may be underway, such as repainting classrooms or supplying additional learning and teaching materials. Learners from the remote communities that ABCF supports walk over 10 km a day to get to school on an empty stomach and still need to concentrate and learn in class. The nutrition programs provide healthy daily meals for learners, giving them the fuel and energy that they need to participate in class and actively invest in their learning and education. The nutrition programs are a small way in which we are removing the barrier to learning that many learners face and in turn, this contributes towards building an educated young generation that is equipped to access further learning and career opportunities once they leave school.
Communities living in harmony with wildlife
The conservation impact safari explores one of the core pillars of the foundation, conservation. The foundation is supporting vulnerable communities that live along the national park boundary to keep their livestock safe from wildlife and actively creating awareness while educating the community on the importance of conservation and how to co-exist with wildlife in harmony. This safari is an educational adventure where guests will learn more about conservation in the national parks where we operate while getting an opportunity to partner with the foundation and community to build and erect a lion boma. A boma is a cloth material that is used to cover kraals so lions are unable to see the animals in the kraal, thus protecting the livestock inside from lions. By protecting the community’s livestock from lions and other predators, we are reducing human-wildlife conflict in the area and retaliation killing of wildlife. By going on a conservation safari, guests are leaving behind more than just a lion boma in the community, they are supporting families to preserve their wealth source and increasing the lion population in the national park.
