The last year has been a difficult one for Koiyaki Guiding School and Wilderness Camp. Fund-raising has been lower, mainly due to the worldwide recession, and donor concerns about the ownership of KGS and WC, and the procedure of awarding a lease to a business for the WC. The financial audit reports from July 2008 to June 2010 have now been completed.

It is pleasing to see at least one of these concerns has been dealt with and the Masai community have decided that the land on which these community project stand should now be allocated and owned by the community, this is a big step in the right direction.

Unfortunately, the WC open tender for a lease is still pending despite the agreement with the incumbent business operator expiring on OCT 2010. It is hoped that the community committee will handle this in a plural manner, so as to obtain the best business deal for the KGS budget.

The Koiyaki Wilderness Camp is one of the main contributors to the KGS budget, so an open bidding process for this business will end up giving the best deal to the school budget.

KGS graduation will take place of 11th June; to date 7 students failed their KPSG bronze exam, but will re-sit this on the 19th May. This year only 20 students were admitted to KGS due to a lower number of sponsors.

The school facility is now being used as a base for the Koiyaki Outreach program jointly funded through the OOCT and Base Camp Foundation who have signed a MOU dated form the 1st Jan 2010 to cover this 4-year program.

Sarah Lariam and Grace Nasenyia based at KGS run the Outreach program which deals mainly with women’s education and business sustainability, computer capacity building in primary schools, HIV hygiene and general health education.

KGS will also introduce courses in conservancy management, ranger training and wildlife monitoring over the coming year.