Basecamp project - world news !
Time magazine features an article about the Koiyaki Guide School, which is run by Basecamp in partnership with the local community, in its online travel advisory, in May 2009, under the heading "Kenya's Blackboard Jungle".
"I took care of cattle on the Mara when I was a boy," says Jackson Tinka, 21. "So I've seen a lot of wildlife." Jackson is a student at Koiyaki Guide School who is run in partnership between Basecamp and the local community. He were taking Time magazine on a guided tour. here is part of the story:
Tinka and his companion are what was until recently a rarity in Kenya's biggest-drawing game park: tour guides working in the land of their fathers. Though the vast stretch of savanna lies in territory owned by the Masai, until a few years ago the red-robed pastoralists made up less than 20% of those employed in its camps and lodges. Those who could find work did so mostly as low-paid camp guards. Yet there's a growing realization that the Masai and the 590-square-mile (1,530 sq km) national reserve share a common future. The tribe's fortunes will most likely be found in the tourists who provide Kenya with the bulk of its foreign exchange — and in the wildlife those tourists pay to see.
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