DIA Poaching Group and Kisampa

It all began in February 2017 where a group of Grade 5 students from Dar es Salaam International Academy (DIA) stayed at Kisampa for their 4 days field trip.

The field trip covered topics such as Bush Survival Skills, Forestation, Conflict resolution, Animal Tracking, Bee Keeping and Poaching among other. One particular group of students showed high interest in the Poaching topic. Their interest was because further down in the year, they were required to present on the topic in an exhibition at the school, little did we know at the time.

Forward a month later, Kisampa Bush Retreat gets an email from the Poaching Group (name sounds scary), but we opened the email anyway. We found a meeting request from the Poaching Group asking to meet with Kisampa and get Kisampa's views on the Poaching topic. This was indeed a great honor to get to share our views on the subject and we quickly said YES.

A meeting was set up for sometimes Mid-March and it was amazing to sit with the Poaching Group and their leader Miss Joyce. The group had some interesting questions on poaching as they were preparing for their exhibition. We wrapped the "interview" and Kisampa was invited to their exhibition which was scheduled for May 5^th 2017.

It was pleasing to see that the group did not leave it at that verbal invitation, an email invite/reminder was sent about a week before the exhibition, very professional of the group.

On May 5th, Kisampa Bush Retreat represented by Ms. Zaituni attended the exhibition. The Poaching booth was very well researched and presented. As a thank you to Kisampa for our input on their preparations, the poaching group dedicated all the posters made for their exhibition to Kisampa and asked us to put these up at the camp. We will put them up at camp, but we will also share these online for everyone to see, enjoy the posters further down this article.

The group was highly dedicated and very thoughtful in their processes. Congratulations to the DIA staff that supported this lovely Poaching Group. Special thanks to Ms. Joyce for providing guidance to the group, the hard work resulted into a well researched exhibition that was highly educating.

And to finally mention the names of the Poaching Group members, Fatma, Ali, Khairat, and Marcus with the fabulous Ms. Joyce. It was a delight for Kisampa Bush Retreat to be involved and we look forward to another opportunity.