Community action reduces tension
Matatu Mngumi Shehe is 37 and has lived in Mkwaja all her life. She is married with five children, two boys and three girls. Her coastal village is located at the northern end of Saadani National Park and contains around 215 households. Most people earn at least part...
Saadani Trails 2
On our recent visit to Saadani, Peter, Bruce and I had the opportunity to sit and talk with representatives from the newly established PECC committees. We visited with each of the committees in the villages of Gongo, Saadani, Mkwaja, Buyuni, Matapwili and Mkange to...
Kihembe video
We are please to announce the posting of our new Kihembe promotional video which has just been added to our website. Many thanks go to James Banks who produced the video for us and to others in the Kesho Trust and our partners SANA for their contributions. The video...
Saadani Trails
The PECC project is just nearing the end of its first quarter and lots of important foundation level activities have been taking place. Progress is also happening around establishing the land in Mkange, for the Kihembe education centre. From 18th to 21st November...
World Parks Congress – 2014
IUCN’s World Parks Congress [WPC] is held every 10 years. The last Congress was in Durban, South Africa. In November of 2014 Sydney, Australia will be hosting the WPC. The Kesho Trust will be participating in the Congress as will many of our partner participants in...
Volunteer Expo – Whitehorse
Volunteer Yukon sponsored an Education, Career and Volunteer Expo at Yukon College today [Oct. 10/13] and the Kesho Trust participated. Our table attracted many visitors wanting to find out about what the organziation does and how volunteers can asssist. Pictured...
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 funds...
ICAAD Update
Increasing the Profile of Disability Rights – ICAAD Gets Underway A lot has been happening in our four project districts since we began implementing the Improving Community Awareness and Advocacy on Disability project four months ago. In fact, activities didn't really...
Tofino – PAPR Workshop
The Protected Areas and Poverty Reduction Research Alliance [PAPR] is into it s final year now. The project has supported considerable research into the relationships between protected area conservation and the challenges of neighbouring communities under the four...
Perspective on Poverty – A response
Bruce's recent jouranl entry raises some very significant observations around poverty which I would like to build on. As I think you rightly highlight, poverty is multi-dimensional and often subjective which is why coming up with generalised definitions and...