Nat Geo visit and Traditional Medicine
Category: Uncategorized | Date: Jan 12 2008 | By: admin
Hello All!
A happy new year and hopefully a fruitful one for everyone out there!
The Ol Tukai Conservancy is doing very well, and we would like very much to express our sadness at the events in Kenya and how they may be effecting our colleagues, and their families. We hope that the situation resolves itself quickly and without any more bloodshed.
The Ol Tukai Community received 18 visitors on safari with National Geographic in early December. These guests were given a lecture by Mr. Bonifas Ngomojino who will be taking over this blog for me imminently and were shown the projects of the conservancy, from the anti-poaching unit to the newest kitchen for the local primary school! We are currently negotiating with the outfitters for the National Geographic expeditions to have all of their tours visit the project.
Tommorrow (Sunday, 13th Jan, 2008) we will be receiving a visit from 20 Australian Doctors who will be spending time with a Laibon (a Masai spiritual and social leader, who is also the possessor of extremely valuable knowledge for the community) who will be showing them local medicinal plants, their preparation and prescription.
Otherwise all is well and the work continues apace!
Thanks!
Corbett Bishop
-
100% of your donation, minus a small bank fee, will go to your intended purpose.
Donations made here are safe.
-
Donations Received
- May 7th Richard B. USD60.00
- Dec 7th Cathy S. USD27.50
- Oct 21st Jeremy R. USD27.50
- Apr 7th Theresa S. USD25.00
- Feb 10th Theresa S. USD50.00
- Dec 28th Patricia B. USD500.00
- Oct 18th Rob K. USD75.00
2 Responses to “Nat Geo visit and Traditional Medicine”
Pam/Shell Beach, CA, on 12 Jan 2008
Wow, sounds like you have had and will have more interesting visitors. The teaching of the use of the medicinal plants sounds very interesting.
Corbett Bishop, on 15 Jan 2008
Hi Pam!
Very very interesting stuff! The Laibon (essentially the Masai Shaman) really pulled out all the stops for this group of doctors, demonstrating the identification, preparation and prescription (highly ritualistic) of these medicines..so it was quite an experience for everyone!
I find it extremely prescient and encourageing that western doctors are more and more interested in the field of traditional medicine..a bit of honest and objective knowledge exchange goes a very very long way!
Thanks for your support! Cheers!
Corbett
Trackback URI | Comments RSS
Leave a Reply