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Education Empowerment Safari

9 nights

Impact Safari Overview

Embark on a transformative nine-night Education Empowerment Safari that will redefine how you experience Africa. This authentic journey will take you through Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, where you will enjoy stays at three of our remarkable Experiences, each offering a unique insight into local communities and our education initiatives.

Education is the most powerful force for progress, as you’ll experience on this insightful Safari. Led by our expert local guides, you’ll visit Khwai, Maunga, and Mambanje Preschools – all supported by our Foundation. Here, you’ll dive deep into our impactful education programs, seeing firsthand how they are helping to shape children’s futures. As part of our essential Nutrition Program, you’ll spend time at the schools and help serve nourishing daily meals that are essential for growth and concentration. In these remote regions, where access to quality education and durable infrastructure are vital, you’ll see how communities are being empowered to build brighter futures for their children.

Join us in making a real difference. Let’s continue to share and conserve Africa, together.

10% of your booking will be donated to the African Bush Camps Foundation to support our learner initiatives. You are also warmly invited to make additional donations to further support our learners.

3 nights Khwai Leadwood | 3 nights Thorntree River Lodge | 3 nights Somalisa Expeditions

9 Nights

From USD 8 031 per person sharing

Destinations Visited
  • Botswana
  • Zimbabwe
  • Zambia

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*Final pricing subject to change according to current exchange rates.

Itinerary breakdown

Khwai Leadwood

Botswana

✈️: Scheduled safari aircraft flight from Maun International Airport to Khwai Airstrip.

🚐: Game drive transfer from Khwai Airstrip to Khwai Leadwood.

The journey begins in Botswana, where we are investing in local schools and enriching the community through skills development and entrepreneurship. Here, we will visit the Khwai preschool, tour the school facilities and volunteer at the nutrition program. During your stay at Khwai Leadwood, you will be guided by one of our trainee female guides as part of their on-the-job training to become licensed safari guides.

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Thorntree River Lodge

Zambia

🚐: Game drive transfer from Khwai Leadwood to Khwai Airstrip.

✈️: Scheduled safari aircraft flight from Khwai Airstrip to Kasane International Airport.

🚐: Road transfer from Kasane International Airport to Thorntree River Lodge.

We then journey to Zambia, where we are improving access to quality healthcare for the community and improving the quality of education. We will visit the Maunga clinic where we have improved access to quality healthcare for women in the community by building a clinic fully-equipped with a maternity ward. This clinic has significantly reduced the mortality rate for mothers and children during labour. In addition to this, we will visit Maunga Primary where we are supporting learners and teachers at the school through infrastructure improvements, access to educational resources and materials and launching the nutrition program. Here, we will volunteer at the school’s nutrition program.

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Somalisa Expeditions

Zimbabwe

🚐: Road transfer from Thorntree River Lodge to Victoria  Falls International Airport.

✈️: Scheduled safari aircraft flight from Victoria Falls International Airport to Manga Airstrip.

🚐: Game drive transfer from Manga Aisrtrip to Somalisa Expeditions.

We wrap up the adventure in Zimbabwe by visiting the Mambanje and Dete communities just outside of the Hwange National Park, where our projects are actively investing in schools, communities and conservation to help mitigate human-wildlife conflict by educating, equipping and empowering communities living near national parks to co-exist with wildlife. We will visit Mambanje Garden, Thandanani and Vukani, women-led groups that are earning a living as tailors, selling crops and making jewellery from recycled magazines and newsletters. Learn how they make jewellery and beads while doing some shopping for their store in the village. We conclude the trip with a visit the Mambanje Primary School for a tour of the school facilities and we will volunteer at the nutrition program.

🚐: Game drive transfer from Somalisa Expeditions to Manga Airstrip.

✈️: Scheduled safari aircraft flight from Manga Airstrip to Victoria Falls International Airport.

 

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Rates

2025
DATE AND SEASON PRICE*
EMERALD SEASON - January 01 - March 31, '25 & December 01 - December 31, '25 USD 8 031
MID SEASON - April 01 - May 31, '25 & November 01 - November 30, '25 USD 9 834
HIGH SEASON - June 01 - October 31, '25 USD 12 888

*Our rates are per person sharing.

*Rates are subject to change without notice.

Included & Excluded

Included:

  • Accommodation
  • All meals and beverages
  • Conservation and community levy
  • Scheduled inter-camp air transfers (fixed-wing)
  • Airport departure taxes and landing fees
  • Return road transfers from airstrips
  • Laundry service
  • Twice daily shared safari activities
  • 10% of your booking will be donated to the African Bush Camps Foundation to support our learner initiatives.

Excluded:

  • International flights
  • Transfers not stipulated
  • Travel insurance
  • Visa fees
  • Items of a personal nature
  • Gratuities
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The Impact Magazine

We wrapped up 2022 with this quote by C.S. Lewis: “Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be.” This quote is one of the truest reflections of what the past 24 months have been for us at African Bush Camps Foundation: It’s been making progress. ​

It’s been learning to crawl, walk, and run again. We have been leaning back into our core as an organisation and realigned ourselves and our projects so we can make a lasting and sustainable difference and impact in the communities and areas near our camps.​

This impact magazine is the culmination of a lot of hard work and support by, the ABC family, our donors and the communities we support. It’s a reflection of how far we have come, an extension of our gratitude for the unwavering support we continue to receive and our encouragement to keep making progress. ​

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Activities

  • Game Drive

     

  • Walking Safari

     

  • Fishing

     

  • Canoeing

     

  • Victoria Falls

     

Wildlife

Wildlife sightings include elephant, kudu, sable antelope, zebra, wildebeest, gemsbok, the rare and endangered roan antelope, buffalo, giraffe, lion, leopard, hyena, and many other wildlife species.

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