{"id":11,"date":"2014-11-22T03:17:08","date_gmt":"2014-11-22T03:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mararianda.e3zone.com\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2024-04-25T19:34:14","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T19:34:14","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/mararianda.com\/?page_id=11","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1714073639424{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;]In March 2003 Richard Long travelled to the Maasai Mara for a short photographic holiday. It was during this trip that he visited the school and learned about its needs, since then he has returned at least twice a year to assist the schools and local community.<\/p>\n<p>The Mara Rianda Charitable Trust is a company that was incorporated in England on 5 February 2004. Its company number is <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.companieshouse.gov.uk\">5035681<\/a><\/strong>. It was registered as a charity with the UK Charity Commission on 23 February 2004. Its charity number is <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charity-commission.gov.uk\">1102255<\/a><\/strong>. It is governed by the UK Company and charity legislation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The directors and trustees are:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Colin Bird<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Dominic Grammaticas<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Nigel Hollingsworth<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Richard Long<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Our community officer in the Mara is:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\">Julius Karia<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mararianda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/julius-karia.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-548 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/mararianda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/julius-karia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mararianda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/julius-karia.jpg 853w, http:\/\/mararianda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/julius-karia-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mararianda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/julius-karia-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/><\/a>Julius has the important role of being the charity\u2019s eyes and ears in the Mara.\u00a0 Although he is a full time employee of Governors\u2019 Camp they have generously appointed him to be our local community officer and he regularly meets with the schools, students and community and reports back to the Trustees. It would be very difficult for us to operate without his hard work and dedication.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A Trustee visits the local community twice a year and establishes what the needs and problems, if any, are. The Trustees meet on a regular basis and decide on the work, funding and spending of the charity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">All funds raised are used to support the schools and local community.\u00a0Please note that no funds are used to meet any overheads or salaries in running the charity.\u00a0The directors and trustees work without any remuneration or salary.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1714073639424{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;]In March 2003 Richard Long travelled to the Maasai Mara for a short photographic holiday. It was during this trip that he visited the school and learned about its needs, since then he has returned at least twice a year to assist the schools and local community. The Mara Rianda Charitable Trust [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mararianda.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mararianda.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mararianda.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mararianda.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mararianda.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"http:\/\/mararianda.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":592,"href":"http:\/\/mararianda.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mararianda.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}