Kenya’s Campi ya Kanzi has hosted celebrity guests like Naomi Watts and Edward Norton, who have travelled there on vacation to enjoy beautiful views of Mount Kilimanjaro and a luxury-filled safari experience across vast acres of East African wild land.

While the views and wildlife are equally exciting for VIU graduate Katie Schneider, her attraction to this luxury safari camp is more about the work it has been doing since 1996 to promote sustainable tourism and protect wildlife and habitat, while providing employment for the Maasai people in the area.

Schneider, who graduated this year from VIU’s Bachelor in Tourism Management program, left Oct. 8 for a one-year internship with Campi ya Kanzi and the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust.  Read more…..