How does this ecotourism project benefit the local community?

The staff of the campsite were asked how the campsite affected their lives. The following are their answers:

 

Stratton, the campsite manager
“This project has allowed me to get educated as a tour guide and learn how to drive to get a licence. My father is dead and I am the first born so I am responsible for my younger brother and sister. The income helps to fulfil my dream and build a house.”
Emilia: Cook and campsite neighbour.
“The income from the campsite affects my life because there is nowhere else to get an income. I have two children aged 18 and 15 so it pays the school fees. My husband died in 1991 in a car accident. I live with my father’s family. The school fees are 400,000 Tsh per year (400USD). She usually has to ask her brother for the school fees but he has a family of his own. I also enjoy meeting our guests from different countries.
Deo Guide: 28 years old Njari villager
“ The income from the campsite helps me to manage my life, pay for school fees for my young sisters. My father died in 1990 and I was in standard 5. Since I am the first born I have the responsibility for the family. The income is also helping to fund a college course in Hotel Management in Moshi. I enjoy communicating with different people and so gain ideas about development eg the AIDS issue. I have learnt many things about my own area and about how to keep our environment. The people who come here have helped with community projects.”
Hugo: watchman, campsite neighbour

“From the income I have bought the sand to build my house. The income helps my family with the health costs, paid for my son’s marriage, and I have bought milk goats for the family. If the campsite did not exist I would have enough money to afford a life.”
Josephine: neighbour and cleaner.
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“I have no mother or father. My mother dies last year of breast cancer. She was looking after 9 children. I now have to look after the family to buy clothes, school fees and school equipment”
Supporting The local Primary School
Stratton Ngoti (Campsite manager) handing over a contribution towards Ngasini School to Councillor Evarist Momburi (chairman of the village development project UNCODET) in the presence of Mr Gerald Kessi, headteacher of Ngasini Primary School.