Giving back to community

SUPPORT NATIVE COMMUNITY

By making your booking with us, you serve a great purpose. Your travels have the potential to change lives as they open our eyes to forgotten natives, cultures, lifestyles, most in need, and remote local communities.

1. Locally Hosted Programs
   With us in Culture Explorer itineraries in Tanzania, you will be accommodated by local hosts and guided by indigenous villagers. One of the most direct ways to give back to our local communities while traveling in our itinerary is your stay. In these ways, you’re going to experience the natives and their lifestyle to the fullest, perhaps engaging in goat milking with Maasai mama or going herding with boys. An opportunity to touch, hear, see, and experience - unforgettable memories. Local hosts are also more likely to be the ways to espy native cultures and can act as launching pads for the best tastes, hospitality, natural made, and 100% eco-tourism apart from the fact that local accommodations put money directly into the pockets of locals.
2. Shopping Handmade and Supporting Local Vendors
   One of your favorite parts about visiting with us in Tanzania is discovering unique items to bring home as gifts to your family and friends. The major tourist emporiums, however, are typically filled with mass-produced and imported products. With us, you will explore local markets, on the other hand, tend to have the most authentic goods and souvenirs where there’s a better chance that your purchase directly supports the local vendors. On your Camping Safari with us, our chefs bought natural grown food to cook for you on safari from native vendors. And so indirectly by eating, you are involved in growing our small-scale vendors. Your visit connects with a wide variety of products and services, such as farm products, fruits from local vendors, handcrafts from artisans, craftsmen, and natural creators.
3. Direct Donation to Local Organizations
   You are mostly invited to Donation. Donating directly to local organizations is an incredible way to make your positive impact last. With our guides, you will have information and perhaps guidelines of the legitimate local organization to donate. To avoid greed and corruption, we will aid you in good means to make your donation valid. By not encouraging or creating a begging culture where tourists are seen as walking ATMs which creates uncomfortable situations for all involved. We will aid avoid this by making sure all community members most in need only benefitted but also based on their role and positive impact in the community experience. We are local and well know where help is needed better than others, so it’s almost always best to follow the lead of locally run organizations and charities. Most of our itineraries to visit native communities in Tanzania are visiting the community most in need. Perhaps donate school uniform, footballs, funding legitimate charity projects such as Bethlehem orphanage, and others in rural areas in Arusha.
4. Support Local Conservation Efforts
   Most of our local communities in Tanzania are managed except for some of the few un-managed visits but still organized at the tribal level we are going to experience just to make your experience unique. Some of them have their heritages such as waterfalls, lakes, farms, reserved parks, and museum or conserved area where they collect funds which go directly to build their community but some don’t have and perhaps are untrained to locate. Most of our programs are set purposeful for the local community to sucking beneficial impacts. For instance, several of our wildlife safaris in Tanzania are accommodated in lodges and luxury camps which also target for migration we use less used Lake Natron-Waso-Lobo route through less-visited Maasai villages with local managed gates entrance. All to benefit the indigenous community over central governed via entrance fees through the main route and return on other ways to maximize your experience for a win-win situation. So we will need to pay our entrances and other levy passing their villages as it’s no secret that travel can result in a sizable environmental footprint. Fortunately, these are the ways to balance our impact by getting charged or supporting outdoor projects and initiatives perhaps donating a school book, pen, food, farm seed, or supporting hand-made and so. By doing so perhaps you minimize the local hunts for food and other sustainability. But also, you may ask us to locate your appropriate as well.
5. Participate in Community Events and Projects
   Another great way to support the local community and give back while traveling is attending and participating in community events. Don’t be afraid to get out of your comfort zone! We can locate you working on a small farm or garden owned by charities, cleaning orphanages, cooking for children in child care at Lukundane Orphanage. Join in cattle milking and feeding at Nkoaranga orphanage community.
6. Volunteer Your Time
   Want to give back but your travel budget is limited? Volunteering is an easy and virtually free way to give back while traveling no matter what skills you bring to our local community. From language lessons to childcare to home improvement projects, there’s almost always a way to contribute your talents to local needs. At Rhino Explorer, we will help locate you based on your wishes. We take our travelers to help charities perhaps Childcare at Lukundane Kids at Leganga in Arusha, volunteer teaching Ikirwa pre and primary school at Midawe village located at the slopes of Mount Meru, supporting Maasai community pre-primary school in Mfereji in Monduli Juu in Arusha.
7. 10% of Income
   At Rhino Explorer, 10% of our net income is going directly to one among the most in need family in our local community to support legitimate charity or similar non-profit community projects.