Oli Raison

Like one of the things that we, maybe I'm deviating a little bit from your question here, but one of the things that we found most surprising is the Samburu are incredibly resilient people.

We've already talked about the environment that they live in is very harsh.

They're very marginalized.

They're very poor.

And yet they're incredibly resilient and incredibly happy.

And the source of that resilience is a dependence on one another, this interdependence on one another.

And I think in the West, when we talk about resilience,

That word is quite often considered to be synonymous with toughness, mental grit, broad shoulders, pushing on through.

And actually, in the Sunbury culture, it's really quite the opposite.

They have this kind of quiet confidence that if they were facing hard times, if there was a drought, then their neighbor would step in and their neighbor wouldn't resent them for it.

You know, we've even had stories of one of our team, actually, a guy called Stephen,

His brother-in-law had a really difficult time and lost a lot of his camels and was told that another family who he'd never met was actually gifted 13 camels by his great-grandfather.

And so he went off and said to this family, I've heard that my great-grandfather gave you some camels.

Would you return them to me, to my family?

And they said, yes, no problem.

because they had been told in turn this story that when they were having, when their family was facing hard times four generations ago, they were gifted some camels.

And so they returned the favor.

So it's very reciprocal.

I can't imagine that happening in the West.

This idea that somebody that you've never met before would just turn up on your doorstep and say, hey, my great-grandfather gave your great-grandfather some camels.