Kenya

The Travel Foundation has been working with Kenyan villagers in the Maasai Mara Triangle to help them earn a fair income from tourism.

The project has enabled the villagers to boost their income by over 800% and provided the funds to build new classrooms for the schools, employ more teachers and construct a rainwater harvesting system. Plans are now underway to construct a borehole to supply the villages with clean, fresh water.

The funds coming to the Foundation from "Reduce My Footprint" will provide solar energy to the villages, which will power a generator to pump the water and also bring electricity to the school for the first time, enabling schoolchildren to access computing technology through donated laptops. Visitors booking one of the Maasai Village Excursions will soon be able to see the impact that this project has had on the daily lives of the villagers.