From the field
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A record of conservation, community and wildlife initiatives carried out across Kenya since the foundation began.
02Flagship project
March 2021
Rangers spend weeks at a time living where the wildlife they protect lives. For years, many of them did so in basic tents and worn-out shelters, in the rhino sanctuary of Nairobi National Park and beyond.
The project began in March 2021 , with a warden’s idea. Joseph Dadacha, Senior Warden of Nairobi National Park, wanted to replace the small tents that housed the rhino rangers living inside the park’s rhino sanctuary. The tents had no beds, no bathroom and no kitchen. Maniago Safaris, the foundation and Stand Up Shout Out designed and built the first two self-contained container homes together and moved them into the first two rhino blocks, then fitted water tanks, plumbing and solar power so that the rangers had running water, warm showers and electricity. There are twenty-five rhino blocks in the park, and the foundation set out to build a home for every one of them: twenty-five fully fitted homes at US$14,000 each, a programme of US$350,000.
Ranger camps in Nairobi National Park housed so far through Dignity Housing, with an eight-unit base added at Samburu.
Sponsor a Dignity House
Each fully fitted home costs US$14,000, and a funded unit carries a plaque with your name or your organisation's. Gifts of any size go toward the next one.
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