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1 WILDERNESS AND WINELANDS Souther Africa So geographers i Afric-maps... Place elephats for wat of tows. Joatha Swift, O Poetry: A Rhapsody

Dear Frieds, Little did we thik 50 years ago that the small eterprise we had just iaugurated would become oe of the world s premier safari compaies.

2 Dear Frieds, Little did we thik 50 years ago that the small eterprise we had just iaugurated would become oe of the world s premier safari compaies. (I our mids, of course, Micato is uquestioably the world s absolute best safari compay fortuately, may well-iformed mids agree, as our awards ad accolades idicate.) From the begiig we kew Micato would be uique. We are third geeratio Africas, ad we bega ad built our compay here i the well-kow, well-loved lad of our birth. We raised our childre o a farm i Keya, quite close to Kare Blixe s famous coffee platatio, seve or eight miles from the Ngog Hills. So, you see, whe you travel with Micato you re travellig with more tha just a compay you re travellig with our family. Ideed, that s what sets Micato apart ad makes our safaris feel so differet. You ll fid yourself charmed by Africa s geerous spirit, spellboud by the peace ad beauty of its atural world, delighted by the getle luxury of life o safari, ad you ll be eveloped i warmth ad friedship. Every member of the Micato affiliate compaies the Safari Director who ll accompay your safari, your Driver Guides, all our Africa staff, our so ad daughter at Micato USA, ad may others i Africa ad America will become your family. This is how we have coducted our lives, this is how we built our compay, this is why we say, please joi us at home i Africa, for a safari that will surpass your most eager dream. Sicerely, Felix ad Jae Pito Fouders, Micato Africa

3 Your Safari Team i the Bush Safari Directors: Guide, Helper, Fried Ad with you every step of the way. Safari Directors meet you upo ladig i Africa ad are with you util the momet you depart, always earby ad o prompt call aroud the clock ot just durig busiess hours. Every Micato Safari Director i Keya has eared the prestigious Silver-Level certificatio by the Keya Professioal Safari Guides Associatio ad are seasoed professioals, most of whom have bee with us their etire careers. Graduates of Keya Utalii College or Tazaia s College of Africa Wildlife Maagemet, they guide forays ito the bush, lecture o flora ad faua, deftly hadle logistics, impart fasciatig uggets of Africa history, Swahili, ad tribal folklore. They will also become dear frieds. I Souther Africa, Micato Safari Directors meet the same high stadards, while wildlife exploratios are led by Game Ragers ad Trackers statioed at each camp. Safari Directors offer a deep kowledge of the regio s atural history ad are fluet i South Africa s cultural history, curret affairs, local art, ad culiary ad wiery scees you ame it. But their real talet lies i their ability to make the logistics of travel calm ad effortless for Micato travellers. Driver Guides, Tops i Their Field It bears repeatig: While most compaies offer oly Driver Guides, Micato groups safari with a team of Driver Guides ad a Safari Director. I Keya, our Driver Guides hold a miimum Broze-Level certificatio from the Keya Professioal Safari Guides Associatio ad may are Silver certified. Micato is oe of the few safari compaies that still operates a i-house traiig school with classes i coservatio, the latest discoveries i paleoathropology, guest relatios refreshers, ad may etceteras, icludig CPR traiig i which every Safari Director ad Driver Guide is fully certified. Havig a Safari Director ad a Driver made such a differece. I leared so much... felt sorry for [guests] ot o a Micato safari! Sarah Wille

4 Why Choose Micato?

Here Are The May Micato Differeces How does a safari compay amaze ad excel for more tha 50 years? By a cheerfully reletless dedicatio to service ad iovatio.

Exclusive access to people, places, ad experieces available oly through the Pito family s logtime coectios. Small-group, boutique safaris of fewer tha 18 travellers, ad oly 12 i Souther Africa.

5 Here Are The May Micato Differeces How does a safari compay amaze ad excel for more tha 50 years? By a cheerfully reletless dedicatio to service ad iovatio. With paistakig discermet, profoud expertise, ad the geerosity of spirit that arises from a family s bedrock commitmet to hospitality. Exclusive access to people, places, ad experieces available oly through the Pito family s logtime coectios. Small-group, boutique safaris of fewer tha 18 travellers, ad oly 12 i Souther Africa. 100% guarateed departures, eve for parties of two. All tips icluded, eve to Safari Directors ad Driver Guides. All meals icluded. Ad we uhesitatigly pick up the tab for meals i ay local restaurat o all Custom Safaris. At mealtimes, regioal wies, beer, ad bottled water icluded. I Souther Africa, spirits are ofte icluded, too. Uique Micato Momets aboud o every safari, from bush cocktails to walkig safaris. Free Wi-Fi ad valet laudry service icluded everywhere. Luxurious camps ad lodges obsessively, cotiually curated. Itieraries perfected by geeratios of experiece ad local kowledge. Safari Directors who accompay every East Africa safari. Ad exceptioally well-versed Driver-Guides. A woder-workig Cocierge Team, at your beck ad call every momet of the day ad ight. Surprises. We re famous for them. You ll be amazed. The Pito family, at your service, i Africa ad i the U.S. Ad this could well be at the top of the list we pay for a Africa child s educatio for every safari we sell. The Pitos treat their guests like well-loved, out-of-tow relatives. Travel+Leisure

6 A Day o Safari

Early-Morig Game Drive The su rises early ad eagerly o the savaahs, ad after some tea, coffee, ad pre-breakfast sacks, we veture ito what the great lover of Africa Peter Beard called a paradise

Explorig Africa s Itimate Ladscapes Whole ladscapes seem alert, Peter Matthiesse wrote about Africa i The Tree Where Ma Was Bor.

7 Early-Morig Game Drive The su rises early ad eagerly o the savaahs, ad after some tea, coffee, ad pre-breakfast sacks, we veture ito what the great lover of Africa Peter Beard called a paradise caressed by light ad air i their most special forms. Back at the lodge, we tuck ito a Eglish-style breakfast, or perhaps we ejoy a acacia-shaded picic i the bush. Explorig Africa s Itimate Ladscapes Whole ladscapes seem alert, Peter Matthiesse wrote about Africa i The Tree Where Ma Was Bor. He may well have bee thikig of our alertess i these ladscapes, a charged, joyous cocetratio like a marvelous childhood faculty restored. We roam the savaahs ad forests with our eyes, searchig for their treasures Look! There, a cheetah! ad the lad is o loger mere sceery, a object to look at ad admire, but a livig thig that ivites itimacy ad egagemet. We kow about our species that the more we egage with somethig, the more likely we are to develop a fiery affectio for it. Sudowers ad Susets After a festive luch, with talk of sightigs ad amazemets (high o the list of safari surprises: the fresh ad tasty food), we have time for readig, music, maybe a profoud ap followed by a swim, ad the it s off for a afteroo game drive. After a lovely dier back at camp, ad some time aroud the campfire, we re off to bed. Ad i the morig we may agree with author Elspeth Huxley that there is o sleep so perfect as that stirred but ot broke by the thrillig vibrace of a lio s roar. Africa always brigs us somethig ew. Pliy the Elder, Historia Naturalis A DAY ON SAFARI 43

Flyig Over Africa You may remember it s hard to forget the scee i the film versio of Out of Africa whe Deys Fich Hatto (played by Robert Redford) lads his Gipsy Moth ear Kare Blixe s (Meryl Streep s)

heart-firig poem of a swoopig flight over the icomparably eloquet ladscapes of East Africa.

8 Flyig Over Africa You may remember it s hard to forget the scee i the film versio of Out of Africa whe Deys Fich Hatto (played by Robert Redford) lads his Gipsy Moth ear Kare Blixe s (Meryl Streep s) farm. She rushes out to the spiffy little biplae, ad Fich Hatto does t take off his flyig goggles, he barely throttles back his egie, he just says, Get i, ad thus begis oe of ciema s great momets: a heart-firig poem of a swoopig flight over the icomparably eloquet ladscapes of East Africa.* Isak Diese, Blixe s om de plume, remembered her may Africa flights as the most trasportig pleasure of my life.... Every time I have goe up i a aeroplae ad lookig dow have realized that I was free of the groud, I have had the cosciousess of a great ew discovery. I see, I have thought, This was the idea. Ad ow I uderstad everythig. It s as true today as it was i the 1920s: flyig low ad easily over the cotiet i small plaes is a matchlessly itimate way to appreciate its subtle ad dramatic colours, its tectoic dramas, ad its cavalcade of creatures. We fly over villages, wavig to their residets, ad i a few momets, we re o the groud, shakig their hads. Oe of our guests said it well: For me, flyig over Africa is about as flyig as flyig gets. Our Custom Safaris offer as may flights as your persoalized itierary calls for, ad we ad our guests over the years thik the flights that lik lodges * Before she climbs ito the plae, Blixe asks Fich ad camps o our Classic Safaris (six o The Micato Grad Safari, for istace, ad five o The Staley Wig) are safari highlights, that ad may of them airy dalliaces with Africa s icomparable ladscapes. Hatto, Whe did you lear to fly? Ad he aswers with a Redfordia gri, Yesterday. Rest assured our pilots have hudreds upo hudreds of times more experiece tha have movie-star smiles. (As for the welcome practicality of flyig i Africa, see Bush Flights with a Differece, page 31.) FLYING OVER AFRICA 47

wilderess ad wielads 12 days door-to-door Icludes days e route to/from Cape Tow outh Africa prides itself o its may spectacular ad varied

masterpieces like the sublime Cape Wielads. Wilderess ad Wielads pays superbly paced tribute to those worlds i a mere but boutiful 12 days.

The we re off to a idyll at Braso s Mot Rochelle, i the heart of the cheery ad pacifyig Wielads.

9 wilderess ad wielads 12 days door-to-door Icludes days e route to/from Cape Tow outh Africa prides itself o its may spectacular ad varied worlds, from Cape Tow s urba verve to wild, su-lit domiios like the famed Sabi Sad Game Reserve, to pastoral (ad culiary ad oeophilic) masterpieces like the sublime Cape Wielads. Wilderess ad Wielads pays superbly paced tribute to those worlds i a mere but boutiful 12 days. We begi at oe of Sir Richard Braso s most thrillig creatios, Ulusaba Safari Lodge i the Sabi Sad. The we re off to a idyll at Braso s Mot Rochelle, i the heart of the cheery ad pacifyig Wielads. We ed i a jazzy upbeat at Cape Tow s glamourous Oe&Oly, amed Africa s umber oe hotel i a recet Codé Nast Traveler Reader s Choice poll. I ever kew of a morig i Africa whe I woke up that I was ot happy. Erest Hemigway, True at First Light

10 i the bush (some are built tree-house style); we watch from our private verada as aimals stroll by o their way to the earby waterig hole, we swim i the lodge s pool, die al fresco (or restaurat style, or i our room), pay visits to Ulusaba Reserve s well-populated aimal troupes ad solo stars by four-wheel drive vehicle or o guided walks, ad maybe amble over to the the Lodge s Aroma Boma Spa, which specializes i Africology, usig time-hooured local materials like rooibos, aloe, marula ad Africa potato. day 1 E route days 2 Johaesburg Upo arrival i Johaesburg, we ll be met ad escorted to O.R. Tambo Airport s IterCotietal Hotel for a overight stay. After a relaxig dier, we ll have a trip briefig. days 6 & 7 The Cape Wielads We fly from Ulusaba s private airstrip to Cape Tow via Johaesburg ad drive due west ito the Wielads ad our hotel, Mot Rochelle, aother picture-pretty Braso gem, luxuriously wellwrought, seree ad welcomig, with the promise of...a soft ad golde morig, alert with the praise of birds, as the great Elspeth Huxley wrote about a differet, but woderfully similar Africa place. days 3 5 Sabi Sad Game Reserve At Ulusaba, we have set out to create the most beautiful game reserve i Africa, says Sir Richard Braso. You re holdig a brochure brimmig with beautiful safari lodges, camps, ad game reserves, ad we have our ow favourites, but there s o doubt that Braso & Co are givig Ulusaba their best effort, which as you kow etails a lot of creative, sumptuous, high-spirited best. We fly to Ulusaba Private Game Reserve i the vast Sabi Sad Reserve, adjacet to Kruger Natioal Park o a short scheduled charter flight ad immediately begi to savor its distictive mix of dow home hospitality ad thoughtful luxury. Our rooms at Ulusaba are desiged to give us a itimate feel for life Ulusaba SOUTHERN AFRICA CLASSIC SAFARIS WILDERNESS AND WINELANDS

We sped the ext couple of days explorig the Wielads, South Africa s sceic treasure, graced with bag-up views that with all due respect out-drama Napa ad Sooma.

locally-sourced fare ad wies whose grapes are so expertly ripeed Delaire has achieved South Africa s coveted First Growth status.

Ad we ll sped a afteroo at the Waterford Wie Estate i the gorgeous Blaauwklippe Valley, followed by depedig o our mood a little more wie or chocolate tastig, or a visit to the Fraschhoek Motor Museum.

11 We sped the ext couple of days explorig the Wielads, South Africa s sceic treasure, graced with bag-up views that with all due respect out-drama Napa ad Sooma. We wader i the sparkligly kempt Dutch coloial tows of Stellebosch ad Fraschhoek, droppig i o family-owed vieyards, luchig at the reowed Delaire Graff Estate ad idulgig i ispired pairigs of locally-sourced fare ad wies whose grapes are so expertly ripeed Delaire has achieved South Africa s coveted First Growth status. We might also wish to ogle the spectacular floral gardes with more tha 350 idigeous plats ad stop by the estate s boutique for a look at the exquisite Graff Diamods. Ad we ll sped a afteroo at the Waterford Wie Estate i the gorgeous Blaauwklippe Valley, followed by depedig o our mood a little more wie or chocolate tastig, or a visit to the Fraschhoek Motor Museum. days 8 10 Cape Tow Cape Tow has proudly vaulted to the top tier of the world s favourite cities. I 2014 it was raked the world s umber oe Place to Go i the New York Times aual list. Cape Tow s cultural, artistic, ad culiary life is perhaps Africa s most bubbly, ad our hotel, the magificet Oe&Oly, right o the fizzy Victoria & Alfred Waterfrot, is stage ceter o oe of the cotiet s greatest shows. The great city is graced with a theatrical settig i a atural amphitheater givig way to Table Bay, riged with Devil s Peak, Sigal Hill, Lio s Head, ad the massively regal, ever-echatig Table Moutai, the viewful top of which we ll reach via oe of the plaet s most astoishig aerial cableways. We ll give Cape Tow a thorough ad fasciated look ad drop i for a hads-o visit to oe of Micato-AmericaShare s projects i what Up close ad persoal ecouters with the aimals ad people of Africa are just a few of the highlights of a Micato tour.... Part of the allure of travellig with Micato is that the compay, through its Oe for Oe program, pays oe child s school fees, all the way through high school, for each cliet who books a trip. Michael Shapiro, The Oberoi Group Magazie WILDERNESS AND WINELANDS SOUTHERN AFRICA CLASSIC SAFARIS

12 locals like to call the Mother City. Ad we ll make the magificet drive dow the Cape Peisula, travelig through the Cape Floristic regio, a uique bit of atural magic, home to more tha 6,000 plats foud owhere else i the world, edig at the imposig ad world-historic Cape of Good Hope, for more tha half a cetury oe of the world s most importat waterways. Alog the way, we ll pay our respects to the the gaily totterig peguis at Boulders Beach, ad ejoy luch at Harbour House, o the shores of Kalk Bay, lookig up a impressive 6,500 feet at Du Toits Peak. Ad throughout our Cape Tow stay, our Micato Safari Director will be close by, itroducig us to the city s icoic ad lesser-visited sights, proudly showcasig a city ad regio that, as the Times says, takes your breath away. days 11 & 12 Departure ad arrive home After a great O&O breakfast, we ll have ample time to pack ad freshe up at leisure before we re escorted to Cape Tow Iteratioal for our flights homeward, arrivig o Day 12. The etire trip rated a 10 i every respect. Micato s people are able, kowledgeable ad sociable. Joh was the ideal Safari Director, ad he related perfectly with each member of our family, from age 9 to 74! Nacy ad Rusty Sharp SOUTHERN AFRICA CLASSIC SAFARIS WILDERNESS AND WINELANDS

I am hard pressed to thik of ay reaso why oe would ot use Micato. Their vehicles are absolutely the fiest ad their guides are cosidered the best i the busiess, eve by other operators.

Priscilla Alexader Former Presidet, Protravel Make Your Safari a Private Classic, Or Add a Amazig Extesio Wilderess ad Wielads ca easily be trasformed ito a fully Private Classic Safari, with your ow

Tariff 2019 Lad arragemets, per perso December 15-31 Balace of Year Double Occupacy $16,950 $13,950 Sigle Supplemet 5,550 3,650 Iteral Flights o Safari 1,500 1,500 ( Johaesburg / Ulusaba / Johaesburg

13 I am hard pressed to thik of ay reaso why oe would ot use Micato. Their vehicles are absolutely the fiest ad their guides are cosidered the best i the busiess, eve by other operators. It is a compay that does ot use third parties, but has its ow orgaizatio to aswer every wish, provide special opportuities, ad resolve ay emergecy. Priscilla Alexader Former Presidet, Protravel Make Your Safari a Private Classic, Or Add a Amazig Extesio Wilderess ad Wielads ca easily be trasformed ito a fully Private Classic Safari, with your ow Safari Director, vehicles etc. Why ot jump over to spectacular Victoria Falls or amazig Namibia, sice you re ot far, or visit the moutai gorillas of Rwada? Tariff 2019 Lad arragemets, per perso December Balace of Year Double Occupacy $16,950 $13,950 Sigle Supplemet 5,550 3,650 Iteral Flights o Safari 1,500 1,500 ( Johaesburg / Ulusaba / Johaesburg / Cape Tow) Coectios may apply. For assistace bookig iteratioal flights, we will be happy to refer you to our preferred air ticket purveyor Dates 12 Days Door-to-Door from Home Departs Wedesday, returs Suday Every date is a guarateed departure Ja. 02 Ja. 13 Ja. 09 Ja. 20 Ja. 30 Feb. 10 Feb. 13 Feb. 24 Feb. 27 Mar. 10 Mar. 13 Mar. 24 Mar. 27 Apr. 07 Apr. 10 Apr. 21 May 01 May 12 May 15 May 26 May 29 Jue 09 Jue 12 Jue 23 Jue 26 July 07 July 10 July 21 July 24 Aug. 04 Aug. 07 Aug. 18 Aug. 14 Aug. 25 Aug. 21 Sep. 01 Aug. 28 Sep. 08 Sep. 11 Sep. 22 Sep. 25 Oct. 06 Oct. 02 Oct. 13 Oct. 09 Oct. 20 Oct. 30 Nov. 10 Nov. 13 Nov. 24 Dec. 11 Dec. 22 Dec. 18 Dec. 29 Dec. 25 Ja Dates 12 Days Door-to-Door from Home Departs Wedesday, returs Suday New rates ad dates may apply Ja. 01 Ja. 12 Ja. 08 Ja. 19 Ja. 29 Feb. 09 Feb. 12 Feb. 23 Feb. 26 Mar. 08 Mar. 11 Mar. 22 Mar. 25 Apr. 05 Apr. 08 Apr. 19 Apr 29 May 10 May 13 May 24 May 27 Jue 07 Jue 10 Jue 21 Jue 24 July 05 July 08 July 19 July 22 Aug. 02 Aug. 05 Aug. 16 Aug. 12 Aug. 23 Aug. 19 Aug. 30 Aug. 26 Sep. 06 Sep. 09 Sep. 20 Sep. 23 Oct. 04 Sep. 30 Oct. 11 Oct. 07 Oct. 18 Oct. 28 Nov. 08 Nov. 11 Nov. 22 Dec. 09 Dec. 20 Dec. 16 Dec. 27 Dec. 23 Ja. 03 WILDERNESS AND WINELANDS SOUTHERN AFRICA CLASSIC SAFARIS

14 The World s Most Awarded Safari Compay

WORLD S BEST VALUE WINNER Uprecedeted Nie-Time Wier of Travel+Leisure s award for #1 World s Best Safari Outfitter Travel+Leisure Hall of Fame Travel+Leisure World s Best Value Tourism Cares Legacy i

Fame Travel+Leisure Global Visio Award Developmet, Youth Educatio Micato Oe for Oe Commitmet Porthole Cruise Magazie Best Africa Safari Tour Operator Best Escorted Tour Operator Best Destiatios &

Parter Virtuoso Performace Award 1,000 Places to See Before You Die #1 New York Times Travel Guide Preferred East Africa Tour Operator Sorry for the fie prit, but here are some other Micato Awards ad

Operator, Family, 2016; Silver, Best Escorted Tour Operator, Luxury, 2016 Travel Weekly Magella Awards: Gold, Best Tour Operator, 2017, 2015; Silver, Best Tour Operator, 2016; Gold, Best Marketig

15 WORLD S BEST VALUE WINNER Uprecedeted Nie-Time Wier of Travel+Leisure s award for #1 World s Best Safari Outfitter Travel+Leisure Hall of Fame Travel+Leisure World s Best Value Tourism Cares Legacy i Travel Philathropy Award Travel+Leisure Trips of a Lifetime Uprecedeted Five-Time Wier of Codé Nast Traveler World Savers Award Three Educatio, Two for Doig It All Member of the World Savers Hall of Fame Travel+Leisure Global Visio Award Developmet, Youth Educatio Micato Oe for Oe Commitmet Porthole Cruise Magazie Best Africa Safari Tour Operator Best Escorted Tour Operator Best Destiatios & Experieces Custom Tour Parter TravelAge West WAVE Best Tour Operator Africa / Middle East Virtuoso Best VAST (Active) Operator Best Escorted Tour Operator Best Destiatios & Experieces Custom Tour Parter Virtuoso Performace Award 1,000 Places to See Before You Die #1 New York Times Travel Guide Preferred East Africa Tour Operator Sorry for the fie prit, but here are some other Micato Awards ad Accolades: World Tourism Award, 2017 Travvy Awards: Gold, Best Escorted Tour Operator, Africa, 2016, 2018; Silver, Best Escorted Tour Operator, Adveture, 2016, 2018; Silver, Best Escorted Tour Operator, Family, 2016; Silver, Best Escorted Tour Operator, Luxury, 2016 Travel Weekly Magella Awards: Gold, Best Tour Operator, 2017, 2015; Silver, Best Tour Operator, 2016; Gold, Best Marketig Campaig, 2009, 2011, 2015; Gold, Best Cosumer Brochure, 2009, , ; Gold, Best Trade Brochure, , ; Silver, Best Trade Brochure, , ; Gold, Best Travel Website, 2012, 2014, 2017; Silver, Best Travel Website, 2013, 2015 Hospitality Sales ad Marketig Associatio Iteratioal s (HSMAI) Adria Awards: Gold, Best Trade Brochure, 2012, ; Gold, Best Cosumer Brochure, 2012, ; HSMAI ad Natioal Geographic Traveler Gold Wier, Leader i Sustaiable Tourism, 2013 Ubutu Tourism Award Travel Weekly s World Travel Market Global Award Tazaia Tourist Board Cruise Developmet Award TORCH (Together Our Resources Ca Help) Ispiratio Award, to Lora Macleod, head of Micato-AmericaShare William D. Littleford Award for Corporate Commuity Service Travel Aget magazie s Tour Operator of the Year: Leaders i Luxury Deis Pito LuxuryLik.com s World s Best Luxury Tour Compay Natioal Geographic 50 Tours of a Lifetime.

If you ca t feed a hudred people, the feed just oe. Mother Teresa uimagiable umber of Keya childre do t atted school because their families are too poor to pay eve the most omial school fees.

16 If you ca t feed a hudred people, the feed just oe. Mother Teresa uimagiable umber of Keya childre do t atted school because their families are too poor to pay eve the most omial school fees. I priciple, primary educatio is free i Keya, but myriad fees ofte put it beyod reach: parets are obliged to buy their child s desk; to pay for term exams, the wood for cookig fires, ad a portio of the cooks salaries. The there are schoolbooks, uiforms, writig supplies, ad otebooks. All this adds up to may, may thousads of eager ad worthy childre stayig at home. The Oe for Oe Commitmet For more tha a quarter of a cetury, Micato-AmericaShare has bee a passioate advocate for East Africa childre ad their families. The Micato Oe for Oe Commitmet seds a child to school year after year for every safari we sell. Thousads of Keya childre are able to atted school thaks to our guests, who joi us i The Oe for Oe Commitmet by sigig up for safari. Every child deserves a educatio, ad we re overjoyed to be cotributig to this ualieable right. left: A typically exuberat classroom, led by Peter Mithamo at a school ear the Micato- AmericaShare Harambee Cetre. Aastasia Pito summed up the Africa ethos whe she said, Africa people will give away their last dollar or loaf of bread to someoe who eeds it more.

Micato-AmericaShare The Boy Who Started it All... It all bega with oe little boy, thirty years ago. He was goig from perso to perso i a Nairobi shoppig cetre with a ote from his school headmaster.

She read the ote ad haded him the 600 shilligs the equivalet of $15. Tears ruig dow his face, the boy stood there for a momet, said God bless you, ad dashed away.

17 Micato-AmericaShare The Boy Who Started it All... It all bega with oe little boy, thirty years ago. He was goig from perso to perso i a Nairobi shoppig cetre with a ote from his school headmaster. The ote said that he was a orpha ad eeded to raise 700 shilligs for a school uiform before he could come to class. He had oly collected 100 shilligs. The boy approached Micato s Lora Macleod. She read the ote ad haded him the 600 shilligs the equivalet of $15. Tears ruig dow his face, the boy stood there for a momet, said God bless you, ad dashed away. At that momet Lora realized that Micato was a ideal bridge betwee some of the poorest people o the plaet, ad some of the wealthiest, our travellers. So we gave that bridge a ame: AmericaShare, ad have bee helpig to chage lives for the better ever sice. We re proud of our accolades ad of the life-sparkig joy our safariers routiely experiece, but as our Maagig Director Deis Pito ofte says, Micato-AmericaShare is the why of why we exist. The Harambee Cetre The heart of Micato-AmericaShare s Keya operatio is Harambee Cetre, a multi-buildig oasis of calm ad purpose i the midst of Mukuru, oe of Nairobi s largest slums (where a staggerig 60,000 or more childre ca t atted school). Harambee Cetre made possible by our dear frieds Berard Wharto ad Jeifer Walsh ad scores of carig safari-goers comprises a Commuity Cetre for Mukuru residets; a beautiful, 13,000-volume library for all of Mukuru (made possible by Suzie ad Bruce Kover through a grat by The Kover Foudatio); a digitally up-to-the-miute Computer Cetre (also eabled by the Kover Foudatio); a basketball court; a special-eeds classroom; a fresh-water well (Mukuru has o assured water supply); the Gorretti Nursery School, which cares for upwards of 150 childre (Micato-AmericaShare cotributes to the studets daily meals for these childre, which is ofte their oly meal for the day); ad a cottage factory for Huru Iteratioal. For much more o Micato-AmericaShare ad all our efforts to give back to our home cotiet, visit Micato.com ad click About Micato

18 Huru Iteratioal Girls i East Africa who ca t afford saitary pads very ofte avoid school durig their periods, losig as much as a etire moth each school year. Micato is a major door ad supporter of Huru Iteratioal, fouded i 2008 by AmericaShare fouder Lora Macleod. Huru maufactures reusable saitary pads, which have bee distributed i Huru Kits to more tha 150,000 girls i Keya, Tazaia, ad Ugada. Each kit cosists of a colourful drawstrig backpack with eight reusable pads; uderwear; deterget-grade soap for washig pads; a resealable waterproof bag for the safe storage of used pads; ad educatioal materials o HIV/AIDS prevetio ad sexual ad reproductive health. Huru Kits have saved girls 3.5 millio school days that otherwise would have bee lost. Sposorship It s ot uusual for ispired safari guests to decide o the spot (or back home for that matter) to sposor a child to atted boardig school. This programme places a child i a carefully vetted boardig school, ad provides every resource ecessary for a child to obtai a high school diploma. May lives, o both sides of the Atlatic, have bee chaged by this programme. Iquiries@AmericaShare.com to lear more. More Milestoes The Harambee Cetre Library was recetly awarded the Best Commuity Library i Nairobi by the Keya Library Associatio. To its post-graduates, Micato-AmericaShare offers scholarships that cover the cost of acquirig trade skills or semi-professioal certificatios or professioal degrees. We parter with Voluteer Optometric Services to Humaity to brig eye cliics to the commuity. VOSH doctors examie ad treat thousads of childre ad adults, ad doate thousads of prescriptio eyeglasses. Lacrosse, a game ot played i Keya, was itroduced i Mukuru i Jue 2014 through a AmericaShare Project by teeager Ia Macleod with support from private doors, busiesses, ad the Iteratioal Lacrosse Federatio.

East Africa AFRICAN SPLENDOUR

East Africa AFRICAN SPLENDOUR AFRICAN SPLENDOUR East Africa To depart o a safari is ot oly a physical act, it is also a gesture. You leave behid the worries, the strais, the irritatios of life amog people uder pressure, ad eter the