Tuende Pamoja

Tuende Pamoja

Kisampa is a private community conservation sanctuary that adjoins the unique coastal Saadani National Park in eastern Tanzania. Conserving this area is the passion of Epic’s own Rob Barbour.

Here Rob’s family have made their own home and developed a small eco friendly lodge, with the lightest, most delicate footprint. This endeavour is hand in hand with the local community – engaging in socially and environmentally responsible tourism that helps to protect the area and brings money and resources directly to the community.

One of the projects is the sponsoring of underprivileged children to receive a secondary education at various schools adjacent to Kisampa. Through Kisampa’s Tuende Pamoja Trust Fund (“Let’s move forward together” in Kiswahili), they have facilitated the sponsorship of children who would normally not have the means to go to secondary school because they are orphaned, from non-working single-parent families, or are deemed ‘poorer than poor’ (as decided by their own communities).

A secondary education in Tanzania costs US$ 250 per child, per year, for five years at a government school. This includes their school fees, any accommodation allowances, food, a uniform, a pair of shoes and a solar light to study by at night as there is no electricity in the village. Through the Tuende Pamoja Trust Fund, over 100 children are currently sponsored at three different secondary schools -all due to the generosity of clients coming to Tanzania. Epic Private Journeys has played a leading role in helping to attract some of this sponsorship.

www.tuendepamoja.org

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Photography:Rob