
Responsible Travel.
Positive Impact.
Reimagined Together.
We're bringing together responsible travel companies, local communities and expert partners to deliver long-term impact at scale
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‘Nawiri’ is Kiswahili for ‘to flourish, thrive’, reflecting our vision of
creating a future where vital ecosystems and local communities thrive together
Today, we collectively employ close to 1,200 people spread across multiple countries in sub-Saharan Africa. We are a leading contributor of funds that support national parks, community-led conservancies, and governments in their efforts to protect and manage globally relevant natural ecosystems. In addition, through our presence and work on the ground and the experiences we offer, we generate and deploy significant grant funding from individual and institutional donors.
Backed by long-term impact investors, we aspire to further scale up our responsible tourism and impact activities in the years ahead. The world we live in faces serious challenges including climate change, loss of natural habitat and continued poverty and lack of opportunities in rural Africa which can only be successfully addressed through bold initiatives at scale.
Nawiri Group has interests in a portfolio of leading responsible travel companies and supports a range of impact organizations and initiatives in some of the greatest, globally important natural wilderness areas on the African continent.
While each of our travel operators have their own distinct commercial approach and positioning, they all contribute to our overall vision and the focus of our non-profit impact activities: to create a future where vital natural ecosystems and local communities thrive together.
Impact Stories
Discover transformative experiences that beckon us to act, and the vast opportunities for impact at scale.
Impact & Sustainability Report
Our vision as NawiriGroup is to bring together responsible travel businesses, conservation initiatives, community support programs, and impact investors to help vital ecosystems and their custodian communities thrive. In 2023/24, we generated US$7.8m for nature protection. Additionally, we deployed US$2m in funding to support education and poverty reduction.
We publish our Impact and Sustainability Report as an annual checkpoint, a moment to reflect on our journey as a brand committed to genuine impact. To this end, each year, we reaffirm our approach, evaluate our progress, celebrate successes, and identify areas for improvement. For a deeper dive into our progress, please see the full report.
News
Updates from Nawiri Group, our portfolio of leading responsible travel companies, and the implementation partners we work with.
Our Collective Journey So Far
Companies
Asilia Africa | Bazaruto | Go2Africa
Expert & Implementation Partners
Ahueni | Basecamp Explorer Foundation | Carbon Tanzania | Honeyguide Foundation | Kamitei Foundation | Kenya Wildlife Trust | LGT Venture Philanthropy | Maa Trust | Six Rivers
Backed by
Norfund | LGT | Sinding Family | Indahl Family
and Co-Founders
Our Collective Journey So Far
Our People
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Jane Karuku
Chair of the Board
Group MD and CEO of EAB Ltd
Chairperson of Kenya’s Vision 2030 Board -
Dr. Helen Gichohi, MBS, OGW
Chair of Impact & Sustainability cmte
Board of Directors, Equity Group Holdings Ltd, Africa conservation ambassador – Fauna & Flora International, Fellowships – Aspen Institute, Yale School of the Environment
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Jeroen Harderwijk
CEO