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:
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.
The Mirror of Hope works tirelessly to improve lives in Kibera slum, the largest slum in Africa. Secret Safari is so proud to partner with them.
For most people living in Kibera, travelling for leisure or taking a holiday is not something that could ever be contemplated.
Mirror of Hope’s top priority is education, having seen first hand the impact that it has on the lives of the most needy children, and their families, in Kibera.
Mirror of Hope’s Female Empowerment programme promotes female entrepreneurship amongst those that need it most. From providing teenage mothers with ground nut, to teaching women to use sewing machines, all so that they may start their own businesses to support them and their families.
Mirror of Hope, with Secret Safari’s support, provides sanitary items to keep young girls in school, unembarrassed and uninterrupted.
Mirror of Hope believes in the long term gains that they bring to their community. During school holidays, and for 6 months after they finish their school education, all MOH sponsored children go out into the community to help those less fortunate.
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:
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.
Find out moreIt’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”
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.
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