The tremendous support provided by those who attended our first fund-raiser helped give new energy and a heightened sense of responsibility to the causes we've been pursuing. As we indicated in our initial brochure and at our first fundraising dinner, the primary purpose of our visit to Kenya in May & June of this year was to complete projects planned earlier in the year to conduct our first official survey as Amara Conservation Ltd.

The Schools
We spent two weeks with Julia Francombe working with the Samburu to rebuild a nursery school in Northern Kenya. It was a very rewarding experience because as well as paying for the construction and bringing school supplies, got to get our hands dirty and work side by side with the locals. We were able to participate directly, from beginning to end, and left a beautiful new school completed! We also got an opportunity to see the water tank that we had purchased for the Mara school, and bought them some schoolbooks and supplies. We completed a basic assessment of needs for repairs and supplies for other Samburu and Maasai schools; needs we plan to address in the near future.

The tremendous benefit of providing improved facilities and educational materials for the schools in wildlife areas is that at the same time we can provide education for the children and their parents on broader conservation issues. Many of the children, and even some of the teachers, have never seen a lion or been close to giraffes, elephants and hippos.

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