The dream of responsible travel
Anyoraa is the Maasai word for “Believe” - because we believe that tourism should and can have a positive impact in the world of development and we are out to prove it. Not just that!
We believe communities have the right to welcome tourists in their own terms
We believe tourism can only be responsible if the community’s basic needs are met - like water, healthcare and the ability to choose their own paths.
We believe in the richness of the Maasai culture and in their ability to improve it and change it as they decide as a community.
We take our responsibilities to the environment, the local community in Oloolaimutia, customers, partners and employees very seriously and constantly strive to make improvements where we can.
70,000+
8
Cabins built
Plastic Bottles Collected
From Nairobi to the Mara.
Built on belief.
Meet the person behind the project
Izzo grew up in Waithaka, Nairobi — far from the wide plains of Maasai Mara. But as a qualified tour guide, he spent years bringing visitors to the Oloolaimutia side of the reserve, watching tourists fall in love with a landscape that local communities were still struggling to benefit from.
In 2009, he founded Marafiki Community International — a Kenyan NGO built around one conviction: that communities can solve their own problems when given the right tools and trust. Over the next decade, MCI built a school in Ripoi, and in doing so, Izzo learned something profound: access to clean water changes everything, especially for children and the women who collect it.
In 2017, he set out to build something that would fund that water mission permanently. A social enterprise — right at the gates of one of Africa's greatest wildernesses — that would be MCI's headquarters in Maasai Mara and a living proof of what a community can create.
He called it Anyoraa. In Maasai, it means believe.
"I want to see my people succeed. Every choice at Anyoraa — who builds it, who runs it, who benefits from it — reflects that."
Izzo