Kenya Medicine Tour

Modern & Indigenous Medicine

23 Day Kenya Medicine Tour 

(dates flexible depending on traveler availability)

PRICE PER PERSON, double occupancy in dorms, home stays and cottages for up to 6 travelers.

Calling all medical professionals who wish to make a direct contribution to healthcare in Kenya. Whether a part of a team delivering a baby in the Kibera slums, giving vaccinations to children and elders in a remote village, learning first hand traditional medicine from Maasai healers and shamans, or teaching local nursing students a seminar in your area of expertise, this 23-day healthcare tour of Kenya provides medical volunteers with the opportunity of a lifetime to have first-hand and hands-on experiences to benefit the health and wellness of many Kenyan communities. The program is a blend of learning, service and clinical care experiences in inner city and rural areas.

Designed with basic accommodations that include home stays, and simple meals 3 each day that can be customized for vegetarian diet, offers volunteers an authentic experience of Kenya life and healthcare, at a budget price. Past trips have made a huge impact on the volunteers and the communities served. Join us in for a trip of a lifetime

Includes:

• All ground transportation in Kenya for program locations outlined in the itinerary, from pick up from Narobi flight arrival through drop off for Nairobi flight departures
• All meals and lodging as presented in the itinerary, with family meals, home stays, dormitory and simple accommodation
• Activities indicated in the itinerary, with Maasai cultural activities and conservation experiences, wildlife driving safari on two days, nature walks, and a day trip to explore Lake Victoria near Kisumu
• Clinic supervision and opportunity for academic credit, depending on school criteria pre-trip informational session, and accompaniment on each day by Susan, owner of Nariku Travel

Does not include:

• International or domestic airfare, tips, immunizations, visas, alcohol & personal purchases
• Mandatory travelers medical insurance (travel and trip cancellation insurance optional)
• Personal-use medical equipment such as stethoscope, ophthalmoscope, otoscope, scrubs, or gloves. Please bring these items along with your white coat

50% Deposit due at time of booking, with the balance due six weeks before departure

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Partners in Leading the Experience

Salaton Ole Ntutu

Maasai Community Chief, Healer, Social Change Leader, Environmentalist, & Safari Camp Owner

Salaton is a traditionally trained Maasai warrior, surviving amongst wild animals in the African bush for more than seven years as a young man, honing his attunement with nature and connection to his ancestors. He is blessed with many spiritual and energetic gifts passed on from his family line, strengthening his connection and communication with people and wildlife, and healing abilities. He has faced wild animals in defense, at times forced to kill lions, leopards and buffalo with just knives and spears.

Today, Salaton is recognized for his courage and wisdom in his village of Maji Moto. His mission in life is to preserve his culture and environment through his leadership for projects and initiatives, including water resources, land conservation to provide space for Maasai lifestyle and protection of holy and healing plants and trees, providing a home for girls rescued from circumcision and early marriage, widows, and women with AIDS, building a self-sustaining economy through tourism, and continued support of educational programs.  >> Read more about Salaton

Dan Ogola

Executive Director, Matibabu Foundation, and Community Program Leader in Kibera Slums

Dan Ogola is the founder and director of the Matibabu Foundation, an organization in Eastern Africa creating jobs and opportunity through health care. Founded in 2006, Matibabu has offered health services to over 60,000 Kenyans. It recently opened the community’s first hospital, a state-of-the art facility drawing new businesses to one of the country’s poorest regions. In Dan’s words, “Matibabu Foundation provides affordable, quality health care to an underserved, but increasingly hopeful community.” Dan will be our liaison and guide into the health care services being provided in the slums of Kibera, one of largest slums in the world. He will help us understand how health care is delivered to the underserved in Kenya, and connect us with clinics for volunteer experiences. You can learn more about Dan’s dedicated work in interviews with CNN in March and July 2012.

Susan Deslaurier

Travel Consultant

Susan Deslaurier first visited Kenya in January, 2007 with Asante Africa Foundation, for which she subsequently served as vice president of the Board of Directors for three years to provide quality education to children in East Africa. She developed deep connections to the Maasai community in Maji Moto, and eventually strategized with Salaton Ole Ntutu on ways to bridge cultural divides, sharing the spirit and nature of Kenya and the Maasai to reignite the connection all people have to their ancestors and the earth. They partnered on a vision of tourism that provides a unique close-up experience of the region, while making a positive contribution to the environment and community programs, as well as offering respectful employment of local people.

Susan left her corporate job as an executive consultant and coach in a major US health care company to pursue her dream of contributing to the peace and health of the world through cultural exchanges among people of the world. >> Read more about Susan.