From the forests to the sea
You came for one of the most beautiful coastlines in the world. This is what happens to the people who live on it when the boat does not come.
One chain of care
The Chyulu Hills capture rainfall in ancient lava channels and release it toward the coast. Safari Doctors and the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust now work as one force along that chain — the health model built on the Lamu coast is being adapted for Maasai pastoralist communities inland. Two landscapes, one system, and two publications that tell you what is actually happening in them: Pori na Pwani, the annual, and CHAI, the foundation magazine.
Pori na Pwani
The annual. Forest and coast, reported from both ends — the villages, the herds, the water, and the people doing the work.
CHAI
The foundation magazine of the partnership. Longer form, published with the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust.
Where to find them
In the rooms and lounges of partner camps and guest houses, at festival stands in Lamu, and as a flipbook you can send on.
Grants pay for programmes
Travellers pay for the things grants will not.
The gap between funding cycles. The unbudgeted emergency. The reserve. The part of the work no logframe has a line for. That is what this channel is for, and it is why a gift from someone who has actually been here is worth more than its face value.
| Give | And it funds |
|---|---|
| $78 | One Youth Health Ambassador’s stipend, for a month |
| $195 | One emergency boat transfer, at night, in any weather |
| $310 | Vaccinating a hundred animals in one settlement |
| $171 | One fully equipped medical backpack — BP monitor, glucometer, thermometer, first aid kit |
| $2,100 | One Safari Vets camp |
| $5,800 | One full monthly medical outreach |
Costs are from our own programme budgets, at a planning rate of USD 1 = KES 129. Pick one and we will tell you what happened to it.
And right now, it is doubled
Grand Challenges Canada · CAD 640,000 match
CAD 185,000
Matched so far
CAD 455,000
Still to be claimed
29%
Of the match drawn
Stay with it
Monthly giving is the only form that behaves like a grant: predictable, unrestricted, renewable.
$25 a month
Wheel — a quarter of an ambassador’s stipend, or consumables on an outreach.
$78 a month
Chain — one Youth Health Ambassador’s stipend, in full, every month.
$250 a month
Current — a third of a monthly outreach, or a third of a village midwife.
$775 a month
Source — a full-time midwife for Kiangwe, month after month.
Cancel any time. Members at Chain and above receive the printed annual by post.
If you run a camp, a lodge or a tour
Your guests ask whether any of this reaches the people who live here. This is a specific answer.
What we ask
Both titles placed in rooms and lounges and restocked. A voluntary per-booking or per-night contribution, stated at booking. A room-charge giving option, so a guest can add a gift to a bill they are already settling. One guided touchpoint per stay — a conversation, a short film, or, where it is genuinely appropriate and safe, a visit.
What you get
A credible answer to the question every guest asks. Named recognition in a well-made publication that stays in the room and goes home in the suitcase. An annual report back with the receipts your guests funded, closed. And content you can use in your own marketing, cleared for consent.
Who to write to
The development desk — issa@safaridoctors.org. Tell us where you are and how many rooms, and we will send the trade pack.
Who is already in
Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust, Campi ya Kanzi, Pamoja Initiative and Moyoni, with the Lamu properties whose owners already support the work.
Karibu LamuWelcome to Lamu — and thank you.