Kenya Expedition
Join 15 other intrepid travellers as you venture out to Kenya’s famous Lake Naivasha before setting off on a Camel Trek through the Districts of Laikipia and Samburuland, the vast plateau North West of Mountt Kenya, straddling the equator at the heart of Kenya’s Rift Valley Province.
Along with our African Impact team you will then be involved in the assistance of a rural community by building a bridge across a local river that when flooded cuts off medical assistance to several surrounding rural villages. Following the building work you will safari on the local Laikipian ranch of El Karama for encounters with the Big 5.
Introduction to the community work at Segera Mission
‘Segera Mission is a beacon of hope for the surrounding nomadic Samburu communities. Set dramatically in the heart of Laikipia, in the shadow of Mount Kenya, the mission offers a number of services and assistance to a rural community of Kenya, which is painfully short of quality health care and education. Included in these services are an agricultural project, some schooling curriculums and a clinic to provide general health care.
The small clinic set up by Segera mission easily sets the highest standards for medical care accessible by the surrounding communities. In the rainy season however a large section of the surrounding community are unable to access the clinic due to the rising waters of a river that lies just North of Segera mission.
With no bridges currently constructed near enough for these communities to use – they are totally cut off from quality health care for several months of each year. African Impact is partnering with Segera Mission to construct a small and practical footbridge to provide year round access to Segera Mission and in particular the clinic’s services”
- Expedition Highlights:
- Experience raw Africa and the phenomenon that is the wildlife-filled plains of Kenya as you travel by camel through wilderness areas.
- Visit Maasai and Samburu villages and see their lives as they are – unchanged for centuries, and unmarred by many of the world’s complications.
- Build a bridge in near a rural Maasai village and mission station. The bridge will provide a vital link between rural communities and the mission clinic during the rainy season each year.
- Assist in the development of a new base for the Nomadic Communities Trust Camel Clinics. This will serve as the base for the nurses who venture out to remote communities to provide HIV/AIDS awareness; family planning and vital immunisations.
- Learn some of the fascinating intricacies of the Maasai, Samburu and other rural Kenyan cultures.