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Type:
Events
Price from:
400 USD /person
Phone:
+254-20-2252015
Fax:
+254 20 2252015
Payment Types:
  • No Cash
  • No Credit Card
  • No Cheque
  • No Travellers cheque
  • No Paypal
  • No Wire Transfer
Duration:
4 days
Location Start:
Nairobi.Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.
Location Finish:
Nairobi.Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.
Start time:
08.30 am
End time:
05.00 pm
We Speak:
English
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Last updated: 03/30/2009

This is a four days tour that takes you to the poor people in Kisumu City and within and around Lake Victoria region from Kisumu city or Kisumu international Airport. You will start tour from Nairobi

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Itinerary

Day 1

Kisumu - Obunga slum and Kisumu Rural lakeshore Tour:

After breakfast, you will be driven to Obunga estate where you will meet the Local resident councilor and have a tour of the slum poverty eradication activities which include the roadside businesses, the children's homes, the single mothers associations, the self help groups and the women groups. Lunch will be at Mamba Hotel in Kisumu city which is famous for its charcoal roasted chicken. Proceed after Lunch to Seme Kaloka where you will be taken the local homesteads and then to the beaches to see how poverty can devastate the villages. You return back to your hotel in Kisumu for dinner and overnight.

Day 2

Kisumu - Siaya - Dominion Farm Tour:

"Calvin Burgess, the owner of Dominion farm said this when he first toured Yala swamp in Siaya "It takes courage to leave the comforts of our developed economies and our homes to be pioneers in rural Africa, but that is the best means of doing well by doing good," Burgess isn't critical of the missionaries and medical teams that have traveled to Africa for the past several decades but he thinks business may be the better answer to the continents continued woes.

"This is putting your money where your mouth is," Burgess said. "Most of the rest of what you hear is just talk. This is what Kenya needs.... they need the same thing we need here, that is economic development, they need jobs, and they need net wealth. Charity is a curse to them in my opinion. It doesn't work; it makes them dependent to where they can't support themselves. And it needs to end." Burgess said.

After breakfast, you will be taken for a tour of Siaya district past the Equator - Line at Maseno. Here you will be taken to the local peasants' homesteads in Alego / Usonga Constituency - Siaya to witness the poverty levels in the constituency before proceeding to the famous Dominion Farm. At this farm, you will witness the impact; the creation of the farm has done in the improvement of alleviation of poverty levels in Siaya and Bondo districts by creating employment and infrastructure. Meet the local Community leaders and the farm workers and hear their testimonies. You then travel back to Kisumu city to end the tour. Lunch is taken in the homesteads. Return to Kisumu city for dinner and overnight stay at your hotel in Kisumu city.

Day 3

Kisumu-Nairobi-Departure:

After breakfast you will depart for Nairobi where you will reach at the Jommo Kenyatta International Airport for your flight to your next destination.

Extra Information

Inclusions -
Security team fee while in the slums
Exclusions -
Flight fares from Kisumu – Nairobi and back to Nairobi

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