Aderema by Oluokos - Smile With Nature

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About the Communities

  • Forming
  • English
  • Ecological
  • Rural

Founding year

  • 2020

What we do

Aderema Hills – Standing Stones is a community-led tourism initiative that aims to foster an authentic human-nature connection and transformational slow holiday experience that mutually benefits the community, saves the environment, and enriches the guests’ experience.
Our program runs from one to three weeks where learning from the host community, sharing your knowledge with them and the cultural immersion offers guests a rare opportunity to indulge themselves in the rich culture and farming traditions by becoming a part of the Iteso community of Aderema in Western Kenya.
Aderema is so much more than your ordinary safari experience. We’re a responsible experiences designer, a passionate community changer, and above all nature conservationists. At Oluokos, we specialize in achieving your best holiday experiences by influencing our community positively.

  • Purpose
  • Ecological
  • Languages
  • English
  • Community type
  • Land-Based Communities
  • Activities
  • Ecological Restoration
  • Experiences

Commemorative dates

  • January 1, 2020
  • Started planning
  • January 1, 2022
  • Started living together
  • Open to new members
  • Open to visitors
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How to join

We believe that the best, most effective, and immediate way to help both the conservation of wildlife and the interests of the communities who own the land where our activities take place is to visit us. Through the payment of daily conservation fees – money that we collect goes a long way towards financing nature conservation.
We honestly understand that the communities can only protect the wildlife, the flora and fauna only if they get immense and tangible benefits from sustainable tourism. At Aderema by Oluokos, making nature a profitable business is an important way to ensure a long-term win-win scenario for both nature and communities.
Your visitation and stay at Aderema creates direct and indirect job opportunities with more than 95% of our staff sourced from these communities and also contributing to the GDP of Kenya.
Here’s where you come in….
Through this appeal, contributors can ‘Acquire an Acre for Nature’ in Aderema through a donation that will fund the land purchase so that nature can continue flourishing. Contributors can be confident that all the money is going directly to safeguard the future of our ecosystem.

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  • Kenya

Aderema by Oluokos - Smile With Nature

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  • Volunteering
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Social Media Intern

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Social Media Intern for GEN International Hours: Up to 20/month, flexible around your schedule and availability Location: Remote, work with Eva Goldfarb Focus: Instagram + LinkedIn (TikTok if you’re into it!) Hi! I’m Eva, and I run social media for GEN International — the global network connecting ecovillages, intentional communities, and regenerative culture-builders across every continent. I’m looking for a co-conspirator to help me tell the stories of the people quietly building the future: off-grid villages in the Philippines, permaculture farms in Senegal, urban cohousing projects in Berlin, elders passing down land wisdom in the Andes. It’s a wildly rich, wildly underrepresented world, and I want more people to fall in love with it the way I have. What you’ll actually do: Dream up and create content for Instagram and LinkedIn (reels, carousels, stories, captions that don’t sound like a corporate newsletter) Dig into our global network and turn your findings into stories people want to share Pitch your own ideas. If there’s a series, a theme, a format, or a corner of the network that lights you up, that’s what I want you to focus on. What we’re looking for: A natural storyteller, someone who can spot the human thread in a project update or a photo from a faraway village Genuinely curious about ecovillages, sustainability, intentional community, regenerative living Self-motivated and communicative; this is a flexible, trust-based role Why this role: This isn’t a “post 3x a week and don’t ask questions” internship. You’ll have real creative freedom to work on what excites you, learn how a global grassroots network tells its story, and build a portfolio full of meaningful, purpose-driven content. Plus you’ll be talking to people living some of the most interesting, intentional lives on the planet. If storytelling for a better world sounds like your kind of fun, let’s talk.

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