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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
2012 was another big year for the Kesho Trust. Our annual report highlights some of the many activities and important contributions people have made to the work of the organziation over the past year. Be sure to have a look and keep up to date with our happenings...