The Baringo Fishing Competition is run on a not-for-profit basis and would not be possible without the generous support and donations of organisations, companies and individuals.
The following companies have generously offered services towards the operation of the event and/or raffle prizes. Thank you! If you are interested in becoming a sponsor please contact us.
The 2019 Baringo Fishing Competition beneficiaries are the RAE Health and Family Planning Clinic and the Baringo Re-stocking Initiative. Both these projects are based in Baringo and benefit the local community directly.
Baringo re-stocking Initiative
The Baringo Fishing Competition with the help of Omega Farms aims to improve conservation procedures and rehabilitate Lake Baringo by stocking indigenous tilapia whose populations have been destroyed through overfishing and lake ecosystem changes.
Omega Farms, which is based on Ol Kokwe Island on Lake Baringo, has shown that the indigenous tilapia from Lake Baringo, when fed optimally, are excellent fish for farming. In 2011 Omega Farms was contracted by the Ministry of Fisheries to restock Lake Baringo as well as regional dams. Since this restocking of the lake, local fish catches are now increasing both in the numbers of tilapia caught as well as in the size of the fish. Omega Farms has also donated new nets to fishermen for capture of the larger tilapia and is now buying and processing the fish from the lake to develop a market for the regional fish catches and farmed fish.
RAE Health and Family Planning Clinic
A clinic run by Elizabeth Meyerhoff PhD. a manger at the Rehabilitation of Arid Environments Charitable Trust (RAE). The overall objective of the RAE Clinic is to provide accessible, reliable and low cost (subsidised) basic health care services to impoverished residents of the remote Baringo region in Northwest Kenya.
The Clinic specialises in the treatment of burns, wounds, and snake bites, having developed a simple, effective treatment for burns and wound care. The Clinic also provides family planning services and education, HIV/AIDS consultation and awareness building, as well as facilitation services and assistance for Hospital referral cases to the poor (especially when surgery is required). The Clinic began some 20 years ago on an informal basis when (mostly) women came to Elizabeth to have their wounds treated (originally in the office), and later asked for assistance with family planning. The Clinic’s work is based on long term community trust and experience, with successful treatments developed and adapted over time by Elizabeth, in consultation with nurses, doctors and specialists. In 2010 a new enlarged Clinic at RAE HQ was constructed. More recently, the RAE Nurse (E. Ombaso) completed additional training in HIV/AIDS management/counselling and Jadelle insertion (a 3 – 5 year family planning method). These, and other improvements, have increased the Clinic’s capacity to provide health and reproductive care services onsite and in partnerships with other organisations (such as Kijabe AIC Mission Hospital and Marie Stopes International).