The health of the body, your community and the environment are inter-related.  Wildfitness wants to be part of moving towards greater health not just in the body but also to expand this to the surrounding community and the planet. 

KENYA
Our key policies are:

Local Community
• Where ever possible we prioritise employing local staff and this includes many local contract staff as well as permanent staff. We are currently training four local trainers and send our senior staff on annual training courses. 
• Wildfitness ensures that the wage provides a high standard of living for the area and enough to cover school fees for two children.  This is not equivalent to salaries in the UK but is well above minimum wages in Kenya and those in equivalent industries.  We also provide medical support to our staff. 
• We sponsor our local fitness trainer to compete in national running events several times a year. 

Conservation 
• Wildfitness gives a monthly donation to Watamu turtle conservation, as well as being a member of the Watamu association.
• Everytime a guest enters one of Watamu’s parks or reserves (on average 3 times / week) $10 is paid on their behalf to the parks.  This amounts to over $1000 a month to the local parks. 
• At other key locations in our training schedule we pay the local communities a fee of £1.50 per head each time we use them.

Energy, Water & Waste
• Wildfitness uses energy saving light bulbs.
• Most of our activities are outdoors so the need for power and fuel is relatively small.
• We use salt water for flush toilets and hand-washing laundry plus catch rain water from the roof and store it in large tanks for use in the house.
• We have a compost system so that any biodegradable waste can be used in the garden.

Local Sourcing
• Wildfitness sources its food locally and organically where possible (where produce has to come from further afield it is transported by road not air).
• We choose our local produce carefully, for example our crabs are only bought if they are over a certain size so as not to take out the young population.

Travel
• We offer a free transfer from Mombasa for anyone choosing to take the train from Nairobi to Mombasa. We also recommend that you do one long-haul holiday a year (come on the longer courses) and that you carbon neutralise your flights: www.carbonneutral.com/shop

GREECE
The hamlet where we run Wildfitness Greece, is owned and run by Tassos and his team, who are all from the local area and are passionate about preserving the place where they grew up - the environment and the local traditions:

Energy & Waste
Electricity is generated from solar energy, gas- and wood-fired boilers heat water for showers and shower water in turn is used for irrigation. Very few items are thrown away. All natural products are recycled, and alternative uses are sought for everything else.

Conservation
The hamlet itself was restored using all local materials. Efforts towards an improved natural environment are intensified every year with reforestation and the cultivation of a wider variety of crops and other products.

Local Sourcing
All food is bought locally in Chania or grown on site, without pesticides or fertiliser, and served fresh.

Culture
Culture is promoted in its essential form by keeping tradition alive, all the while keeping up with current methods and ideas. The local owners consider it crucial that their elders remind and instruct the younger generations in how their forefathers lived.


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