tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-349641354269348652.post7577572408540459741..comments2023-10-10T11:46:28.049-05:00Comments on One more time with feeling: Kenya's Tana DeltaBerthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15778952998119649949noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-349641354269348652.post-999102665144875072014-10-23T02:17:15.119-05:002014-10-23T02:17:15.119-05:00Sorry Bert, I have just come across your blog post...Sorry Bert, I have just come across your blog post and thought how lovely it was and brilliant to share on our social media platforms, when I saw the comment left by 'Pippa' at the bottom. I have worked for Tamsin for nearly 4 years now including a year in the Tana Delta with the Pokomo and Orma communities and the conservation area we run. 'Pippa' was in fact a fabricated person which a Biofuels company (who shall remain nameless so as not to dredge up all that awful slander against the lodge they manufactured) as we were helping the community secure their land for themselves. It was in fact the biofuels company 'land grabbing' and taking the land out from under their feet. All very complicated, but I can assure you we have enjoyed and still do enjoy a very close relationship with the community in the lower tana delta, and 'Pippa' was an attempt to sabotage our reputation, and bookings! Can you imagine the damage they did by writing such nonsense to all our agents? After all the hard work we (the lodge and the community) had put in to the lodge and securing the conservancy. Would the Orma women of Darge village dance and greet you and I the way they do if we were robbing them? Or because we had just finished construction on their nursery school, hmmm. I am happy to talk this over further with you, as we would love to welcome you to Delta Dunes again one day, it is still as gorgeous as your lovely pictures portrayed it to be! Kind regards, KirstyAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15526462505298789844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-349641354269348652.post-61381979371412453652011-08-31T17:27:56.513-05:002011-08-31T17:27:56.513-05:00I will be sure to take this up with Tamsin to get ...I will be sure to take this up with Tamsin to get her side of the story.Berthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15778952998119649949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-349641354269348652.post-17526796834586957472011-08-31T17:19:34.930-05:002011-08-31T17:19:34.930-05:00The local people of the Tana Delta region have rep...The local people of the Tana Delta region have reported that Tamsin Corcoran-Brennan, owner/operator of the Delta Dunes lodge is a squatter on the land she runs her business on. Tamsin has ruthlessly tried to sabotage any potential development in the area that could bring the local people opportunity and economic stability. It is known that the residents of the Tana Delta have less than 5% employment and are desperately poor. Tamsin wants to rob them of any potential future because she is afraid of how it will affect her business. A business she built on land she doesn’t own and doesn’t pay rent for. The people of the Tana Delta deserve better than this!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12563422921380470138noreply@blogger.com