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FEEDING FAMILIES IN NEED

Checking into luxury safari lodges and embarking on adventurous game drives is a privilege, and we believe in our duty to support people in need alongside our commercial endeavours.

It’s no secret that conserving the African landscape and its wildlife is crucial. We hugely value the ongoing efforts by charities, properties, conservancies and KWS that protect the environment for future generations, thanks largely to the tourist dollars that support these efforts. Kenya’s wild spaces are undoubtedly one of things that make it such a special place to live.

Yet at Secret Safari, we know that there are people in Kenya in desperate need of support too. We’ve chosen to focus on helping families in the slums of Nairobi. When you book a trip with Secret Safari, we will provide either:

  • A food pack providing ten meals to a child in an educational holiday camp
  • 10 packs of sanitary towels, keeping a young girl in education, uninterrupted, for 10 months

This vital work is possible because of our partnership with Mirror of Hope, a charity set up in response to help children and families living in the Kibera slum through their educational and commercial empowerment programmes.

Checking into luxury safari lodges and embarking on adventurous game drives is a privilege, and we believe in our duty to support people in need alongside our commercial endeavours.

It’s no secret that conserving the African landscape and its wildlife is crucial. We hugely value the ongoing efforts by charities, properties, conservancies and KWS that protect the environment for future generations, thanks largely to the tourist dollars that support these efforts. Kenya’s wild spaces are undoubtedly one of things that make it such a special place to live.

Yet at Secret Safari, we know that there are people in Kenya in desperate need of support too. We’ve chosen to focus on helping families in the slums of Nairobi. When you book a trip with Secret Safari, we will provide either:

  • A food pack providing ten meals to a child in an educational holiday camp
  • 10 packs of sanitary towels, keeping a young girl in education, uninterrupted, for 10 months

This vital work is possible because of our partnership with Mirror of Hope, a charity set up in response to help children and families living in the Kibera slum through their educational and commercial empowerment programmes.

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SUPPORTING THE VITAL WORK OF THE MIRROR OF HOPE

It’s believed that Kibera is the biggest slum in Africa. While people from Kibera live in unspeakable poverty, they have an unwavering sense of community and care for others. But they need our help. Alongside desperate healthcare, housing, and sanitation challenges, the families in Kibera need education and employment opportunities in order to solve issues longer term.

That’s where Mirror of Hope steps in. They fund children’s education through their scholarship programme, as well as providing Kibera residents with the means to start their own businesses so that they can go on to support themselves and their families.

For example, in addition to funding children’s education, Mirror of Hope has its Women Empowerment Programme, promoting entrepreneurship among the economically vulnerable women of Kibera and providing them with the means to start their own businesses.

They, and we, firmly believe not in short term fixes but in long term ones, exemplified by the proverb “Give a Man a Fish, and You Feed Him for a Day. Teach a Man To Fish, and You Feed Him for a Lifetime”

TO TRAVEL IS A PRIVILEGE THAT NOT EVERYONE CAN ENJOY

Secret Safari’s pledge to support Mirror of Hope with care packages containing either food or sanitary items is a small way of showing our solidarity with this incredible and inspiring community.

We hope that you choose to book with Secret Safari and support Mirror of Hope with a donation on your behalf. But we also urge you to consider supporting this vital work with a direct donation. Please visit https://mirrorofhopecbo.org/ to find out more.