In the Village

Sonia and I toured the local community that has gone from a poor village to a prosperous one with several schools and successful businesses because of the partnership with the Grumeti Reserve. We met with a local farmer who invited us to his home and showed us around his poultry farm. He and his sons seemed genuinely happy to have us and gave us four eggs when we parted. We later visited the farmer’s market that supplies the Singita lodges with much of their fruits and vegetables. We ended our visit at the secondary school where the boys were enamored by Sonia and her long hair. I was pretty much invisible. Most of the kids we talked to asked for us to give their personal greeting to Barak Obama.