A safari company that exists to fund an orphanage

Meet Isaac Sumary

Isaac founded the Fruitful Orphanage and Day Care Center in Arusha and manages Fruits & Love Safaris. The two are one project: the safaris pay for the home, and Isaac answers your enquiry himself.

Isaac runs the Fruitful Orphanage and Day Care Center near Arusha. For years the home depended on donations that arrived unevenly — generous in December, thin by March. Volunteers who came to help kept asking the same question: where can we go on safari, and can our money stay here?

Fruits & Love Volunteering Safaris is the answer. We are a small local team of Tanzanian guides and drivers operating private safaris on the northern circuit — Serengeti, Ngorongoro, Tarangire, Lake Manyara and Arusha National Park. We own the relationships, we pay our guides properly, and 10% of every payment goes straight to the orphanage rather than into marketing.

You get the same trip a good operator would give you: a private 4x4 with a pop-up roof, a guide who knows where the cats are, park fees paid honestly and prices quoted in US dollars with nothing hidden. The difference is what happens after you go home.

Where the money goes

The donation covers the things that never stop: food, school fees, uniforms, medical costs and the running of the day care centre. Isaac reports on it directly through the orphanage website, so you can see the same accounts we do.