1. Care for Mother Earth.
Designed to limit impact and conscious of our sustainable goals, all hot water in the camp is heated as much as possible through a solar water system. We have our own water borehole and we harvest rainwater too!
Our aim is minimize the use of plastic bottles.
For the firewood at the evening bonfires, we have planted our own tree nursery with special fast growing trees. If you like, you can donate two trees ($5,00) for each tree that is cut to provide the campfire to our guests.
We call this a win-win in sustainability.
2. Care for the Maasai people
We have our own organic garden “the food forest” with vegetables, fruits and herbs. You will also find traditional healing plants “the healing garden” along the walking trail within the garden. Maasai are masters in healing using the talents of the plants, roots, flowers and tree leaves. The meaning of this knowledge and the talent of the plants, is to give it away. No chemicals are allowed! This garden provides our own boarding students, staff & guests with healthy food. No high costs for supermarket food that reduces our footprint.
And healthy food means a healthy body. A healthy body means a mind clear to study.
In the school curriculum, students learn the traditional ways of healing with herbs. Perhaps you’d like to learn too? Step into the garden with a culinary art student to pick and choose delicious ingredients from the organic garden and enjoy your meal the same evening!
MEC students love to hear what your favourite meal is.
You can even join them in the kitchen to help out.
Our programme: they learn from you and you learn from the Maasai.
3. Care for the wildlife
Maasai people have conservation in their DNA. It’s their history; bringing balance between nature, human beings and wildlife.
Under the umbrella of The Style Foundation, the local Dupoto Forrest & Wildlife Conservation Association; generates an income for poor Maasai people who a few years ago needed to draw straws and got a plot of land just within the holy forrest Dupoto. Imagine. With one straw drawn, your whole family was required to move into a dark authentic jungle which is the place for wildlife to give birth. For ages and ages the elephants walk a natural trail to give birth to their young in Dupoto. And now, just to survive, the families needed to cut down this forest to build a home, to make a place for their garden and livestock. Everybody is aware that when you cut down a holy spiritual forest, you kill an precious eco-system and a culturally important resource.
By placing communities at the center of wildlife conservation and improving conservation incentives, conservancies in Kenya are securing livelihoods while reversing wildlife decline, resulting in the protection of Maasai’s iconic wildlife, water management and a holy forest for future Maasai generations.
We protect the animal corridors, protect the indigenous species of trees, protect the indigenous endangered wild animals. We also create awareness to the community of the importance of conservation, minimize human-wildlife conflict, have sustainable water management of the ecosystem in the whole Maasai Mara. We protect culture, spiritual values and identity of the Maasai. In time of extreme dryness, it’s a place for animals to survive.
Come and visit the beautiful Dupoto Forest together with our students & ambassadors of Dupoto. Step into a spiritual fairytale of another world and discover its secrets!
Those who have seen the documentary “Down to Earth” & “Geheimen van de Maasai” will get the bigger picture immediately.
