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The power of a proverb lies in the simplicity of its truth. The Swahili believe that umoja ni nguvu, or unity is strength, a belief we echo. For more than 30 years, Singita’s purpose has been to facilitate the protection and preservation of vast tracts of African wilderness for future generations. Facilitate, because we can’t do this alone. In each of the regions we operate, we collaborate with a non-profit Trust or Fund and the communities that live alongside us to care for the land and all the life it supports. Our guests contribute to this simply by spending time with
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Our Trust & Fund Partners
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SINGITA LOWVELD TRUST
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The Singita Lowveld Trust (SLT) is our conservation partner in South Africa. Through its work, safeguarding the biodiversity and landscapes of Singita Kruger National Park and Singita Sabi Sand, as well as supporting communities in the surrounding areas through education, empowerment, and enterprise development, it’s building a future in which people and nature can thrive together in harmony.
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THE MALILANGWE TRUST
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The Malilangwe Trust is our conservation partner in Zimbabwe. Responsible for managing and conserving the Malilangwe Wildlife Reserve and supporting the communities that live alongside it through education and training, it strives to restore balance in the region, so it can continue to function as it has for thousands of years, while also helping raise the standard of living for the people who call it home.
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GRUMETI FUND
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Grumeti Fund, our conservation partner in Tanzania, is largely responsible for the revitalisation of the western corridor of the Serengeti, one of the world’s few fully functioning and intact savannahs. By re-establishing and protecting biodiversity and ecosystems, and enhancing the livelihoods of communities across the region, it’s creating a world where people and wildlife can live together sustainably, in perpetuity.
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SINGITA VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK
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Rwanda’s Volcanoes National Park is one of Africa’s oldest protected areas. The Government of Rwanda, the Rwanda Development Board (RDB), and the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) are collaborating to expand the Park, which is home to precious endemic and endangered species, and improve the lives of the communities that live around it. Our resident conservationists work tirelessly to support these efforts.
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Travel with a purpose
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Every Singita guest pays a Carbon Offset Levy, calculated per night, which balances the footprint of their stay, ensuring their time with us is carbon neutral. On top of this, guests also contribute to conservation by paying a region-specific blend of tourism and conservation levies and park, concession, and wildlife fees. These go directly to our Trust and Fund partners or to the governing bodies responsible for managing the region. Guests may also make contributions to support our philanthropic partners or enjoy a range of community and conservation experiences in each region, which support specific initiatives, at an additional fee.
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Community & Conservation Guest Experiences
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SOUTH AFRICA
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Guests at our properties in Kruger can visit the South African campus of the Singita Community Culinary School (SCCS) for a cooking class, where they’ll learn to make a popular, traditional local dish. In the Sabi Sand, guests can enjoy a demonstration from the region’s canine Anti-Poaching unit or participate in a community visit to the Good Work Foundation Digital Learning Campus, which empowers local youths through digital education and training, an Early Childhood Development Centre, to witness our work supporting the holistic development of young children, and one of the local communities to meet with local entrepreneurs who are part of SLT’s Hustle Economy
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ZIMBABWE
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Guests at our Zimbabwean properties can participate in a community visit to some of the villages in the surrounding area, to engage with projects administered by The Malilangwe Trust, including schools, irrigation and feeding schemes, a nutritional garden, and a clinic. They can also visit the Kambako Living History Museum for insight into the traditional daily ways of life of the local Shangaan people, witnessing the bushcraft skills that have allowed them to live in harmony with the land for centuries. Here, they’ll learn how to make fire, traps, clay pots, bow-and-arrows, and skills such as water diving, basket weaving, iron smelting, beading, and identifying natural
tubers.
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TANZANIA
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Guests at our Grumeti properties can visit the region’s canine Anti-Poaching unit, to interact with the handlers and learn more about their work, or enjoy guided hikes to one of Grumeti Fund’s Observation Posts, where its Anti-Poaching scouts are based. They can also visit the Fund's Research & Innovation for the Serengeti Ecosystem (RISE) Centre, which creates tools and solutions to combat pressing conservation issues, its Environmental Education Centre, where local school students and teachers gain knowledge and skills to care for their environment, or the Grumeti Horticultural & Marketing Cooperative Society (GHOMACOS), an agricultural cooperative that supplies our
properties’ with high-quality, locally grown produce.
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RWANDA
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Guests at our properties in Rwanda can visit the SCCS at the MIPC campus in Musanze and enjoy cooking classes with graduates, visit the on-site Akarabo Nursery to plant an indigenous tree and help the rewilding and reforestation of the property, as part of the ongoing buffer zone expansion of Volcanoes National Park, or visit the small village of Gasura for an interactive tour of authentic Rwandese life and culture — going from house to house, visiting people in their homes, meeting local crafters weaving baskets and carving gorilla-trekking sticks, and learning how to process locally produced staples. This includes stomping cassava roots and grinding sorghum for
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With their rounded ears, bushy tails, and mottled coats of black, white, and tan — each as unique as a fingerprint — African wild dogs are a coveted sight in the wild, and often rare to find. Several large packs, ranging in size from nine dogs to 23, were seen across the Malilangwe Wildlife Reserve in September. These canids have a tightly knit, highly cooperative social structure, meaning they spend most of their time together, with no dog ever left behind. Incredibly, they seem to understand that umoja ni nguvu — unity is strength.
To learn more about wild dogs and the many other wonders of the wild,
sign up or keep an eye out for the next volume of the Singita magazine, centred around the theme of continuation.
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