Overview
Vacancy: Kenya: Beach + Bush - Elephants +Teaching + Tribes
Company: The Leap Overseas Ltd
Category: Multi Activity Gap Years (Conservation, Community development, Teaching English)
Dates: Jan, April, July & Sept (for 6 or 8 wks)
Cost : £1704 - £2580
Description
Your time will be split between our tented camps at the coast, in the Shimba Hills and in the bush close to Tsavo National Park. Between them you’ll get stuck into a series of sustainable conservation and community projects making a considerable difference to the people and their environments.
Coast - Diani Beach This camp at Makongeni is a short distance from Diani Beach on the South Kenya Coast, famous for its shallow, warm, reef protected water.
- Teach children English and Sport at Makongeni School during term time
- Help in other nurseries/child care centres
- Help construct classrooms
- Work alongside local children to construct organic charcoal briquettes
- Improve access to clean drinking water
- Tree planting with primary school kids to teach about forest conservation
- Help with landscaping, cultivating native tree species and planting seedlings
Shimba Hills - Mwaluganje Elephant SanctuaryWe are extremely lucky to have a mobile camp in this sanctuary with a 360-degree view over the herds of elephant. It has the densest population of elephants per square mile for anywhere worldwide.The Sanctuary is community owned and here you'll play an instrumental role in developing initiatives aimed at reducing the human-wildlife conflict.
- Monitoring of elephants and identification on game drives.
- Maintain/improve visitor facilities e.g. campsites, roads and fences.
- Help develop schools surrounding the Wildlife Sanctuary.
- Improving the gift shop and produce a range of quality elephant dung paper products that can be sold to increase revenue for the sanctuary!
- Plant indigenous tree species in the sanctuary.
- Develop wildlife education programmes for the surrounding communities.
The Bush - Rukinga Ranch, TsavoThe third is at Ruknga Ranch a tented camp about 4 hours from the coast, bordering Tsavo National Parks. It is a permanent bush camp in the centre of Rukinga Sanctuary, set out like an African village, surrounded by endless views of the African Bush.
- Improve the rural primary school.
- Construct sports and play facilities.
- Provide teaching assistance and environmental education.
- Promoting local micro-enterprise initiatives.
- Make traditional African crafts, such as beadwork, jewellery and furniture.
- Live with the Imani community getting to know what it’s like to survive in a rural community and gain a greater understanding of rural issues.
- Help to manage habitats, excavating waterholes and planting trees.
- Learn animal survey techniques, collect zoological samples and help to improving educational displays for the conservation centre.
- Monitor the usage of waterholes by wildlife.
- Wildlife viewing and recording.
- Elephant identification (up to 10,000 elephants pass through Tsavo!)Brush up your bush skills