Charities

Climate Care
Save the Rhino
Naivasha Orphans
Nyumbani

Climate Care

As you may be aware, air travel releases gases that contribute to global warming, such as carbon dioxide. In fact, your flight will be the largest environmental impact of your holiday.

We've teamed up with an environmental organisation, Climate Care, to help you to repair the damage your holiday does to the climate. Climate Care funds sustainable energy and forest restoration projects that reduce carbon dioxide on your behalf, by the same amount as your share of the plane emits.

Examples include a project in Madagascar to use slow burning wood stoves and a project in Uganda that is restoring the rainforest in Kibale National Park.

The cost of 'offsetting your emissions' is minimal and will be shown separately on your quote.

For more information – www.climatecare.org

Save the Rhino

Reg Charity No: 1035072

Save the Rhino International works to conserve genetically viable populations of critically endangered rhinoceros species in the wild. They do this by fundraising for and making grants to rhino- and community-based conservation projects in Africa and Asia.

Visit Save the Rhino's website - www.savetherhino.org

Naivasha Orphans - Mji wa Neema Ophanages

Mji wa Neema is Swahili for 'house of hope'. This is a small UK based charity raising funds to support orphaned children in and around Naivasha and Gilgil in Kenya, and specifically to help fund projects run by Jill Simpson MBE and Teresa Wahito, two women who work tirelessly on behalf of AIDS orphans and other deprived children in the area.

The first 'House of Hope' was established in Naivasha, about fifty miles North of Nairobi, Kenya and is home to two babies and a group of 26 small children, who would otherwise have to fend for themselves on the street.

Visit the website - www.naivasha-orphans.org.uk

Nyumbani

Nyumbani provides an orphanage, hospice service and community care for HIV+ infants and children in Africa. Based in Nairobi, Kenya, the orphanage was inspired by the rising number of HIV-infected children born and too often abandoned in Africa.

Because infants younger than a year old carry many of their mothers' antibodies, many newborns with HIV-infected mothers give a 'false positive' and never actually develop the virus themselves. In fact, a full 75% of babies who test positive at birth will eventually be found not to carry the virus. Tragically, these children are often abandoned at birth or shortly thereafter, and ostracized from traditional orphanages. In the public hospitals there are not enough resources to care for these babies, and most die from neglect within a few months.

Nyumbani-- "home" in Swahili--provides a true home to these abandoned children until a correct determination of their HIV status can be made. Children who are eventually found not to be infected with HIV are then placed in appropriate settings to be adopted or cared for by traditional social services agencies. The children found to be truly HIV+ are given the best nutritional, medical, psychosocial, and spiritual care available and live the rest of their days at Nyumbani.

Visit Nyumbani's website - www.nyumbani.org