Maasai Victory

Land rights have been a hotly contested issue in the Loliondo area of Tanzania.  One of our partner organziations, PALISEP has been very active in their community on this issue and are celebrating a significant victory recently.  Read about the issue here in an...

PAPR – Tofino workshop

Our PAPR project is moving into its final year.  Plans for the synthesis of the research developed during the porject were the focus of discussion at a workshop of the international team held in Tofino in June.  Bruce Downie and Leslie King of the Kesho Trust board of...

Finally underway

Our Promoting Environmental Conservation and Cooperation [PECC] project had been suffering some substantial delays in the start up funding availability from the donor – the Foundation for Civil Society.  However, it seems the obstacles have been overcome and...

WEC Conceptual Design Report Released

Our volunteer Brent Liddle, who traveled to Tanzania at the end of last year, has completed the conceptual design report for the World Elephant Centre initiative.  It is an important step forward in this major undertaking and we appreciate Brent’s significant...

Another new project!! ICAAD

ICAAD -Improving Community Awareness and Advocacy on Disability is an initiative to address the rights of disabled people to be part of development projects and programs AND it is an opportunity  for the Kesho Trust to develop our capacity to embrace those rights....

Elerai Water Project Completed

In 2012 the Kesho Trust formed a partnership with a funding organziation called Help Every Day who are interested in small local projects.  We solicited ideas from our partners and a project submitted by EMAYO was selected for funding which was to extend the rainwater...