&Beyond Kwandwe Receives Condé Nast Traveler World Savers Awards

&Beyond has once again received the honour of one of the Condé Nast Traveler World Savers Awards. This year &Beyond came first in the small hotels category for Health Initiatives at Kwandwe Private Game Reserve, and was runner up overall. The awards will be announced in the magazine’s September issue and presented in a ceremony at the Condé Nast Traveler World Savers Congress, in Singapore on 19 and 20 October.

Home to four luxurious safari lodges, &Beyond Kwandwe Private Game Reserve in South Africa’s Eastern Cape is the ideal place to see the Big Five. As part of an intensive community programme at Kwandwe, specific health initiatives have vastly improved the medical care in these rural areas including providing mobile clinics.

Using the &Beyond Positive Health model, a dynamic  initiative designed to train &Beyond staff to counsel and care for people with life-threatening diseases, including HIV/AIDS, Kwandwe has made numerous impacts to ensure their staff and local communities are living healthier, longer lives.

The training course is suited to an African lifestyle, built around diet, natural vitamins and minerals, affordable foodstuffs, developing and maintaining a healthy immune system, and the power of positive thinking. &Beyond ’s Positive Health programme has been implemented across all &Beyond lodges and their neighbouring communities and has reached 35,000 people to date.

“These are all small but powerful steps that have transformed the area,” says Angus Sholto-Douglas, Kwandwe’s co-owner. “It is an honour to be a part of these awards; the credit goes to our wonderful staff who are in the communities every day making a meaningful difference.”

Managed by &Beyond , Kwandwe is deeply committed to the company’s core ethic of “Care of the Land, Care of the Wildlife, Care of the People” and guests can be assured that by choosing to travel to Kwandwe they are making a difference to ongoing biodiversity protection, conservation development and empowerment of neighbouring communities.

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Kwandwe’s social development partner:  www.angusgillisfoundation.co.za  

About CNT World Savers Congress

As part of Condé Nast Traveler's ongoing efforts to encourage the travel industry to do more to address issues of global poverty, health, education, and environmental depredation, they are gathering the leaders of the major travel industry companies for the fourth annual World Savers Congress on 20 October 2010 in Singapore. &Beyond ’s Regional Director, Roelene Beumer, will attend the congress as one of the panel’s speakers on sustainable health solutions for rural communities.

About &Beyond

In 2008, &Beyond was awarded the World Savers in animal conservation for its vast animal reintroduction programme at Phinda Private Game Reserve, including black rhino, elephant, lion and cheetah. &Beyond owns and operates 46 luxury lodges and camps and creates personalised travel experiences in South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Tanzania, Kenya and India. The company was established 19 years ago and its commitment to delighting guests, sustainable responsible travel and community empowerment is world renowned.

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