The Kesho Trust

Who we are

Our Mission is:

To achieve improved livelihoods in pastoral societies, through designing with communities projects that target education, water supply, human rights, and economic development.

Our Vision is:

A people free from poverty, living in harmony, with a recognized, productive and well governed sustainable livelihoods system.

Our Objectives are:

  • to design and implement community projects targeting youth, children, women and old people
  • to improve their quality of life
  • to improve the quality and relevance of education for Maasai girls and boys and to create increased opportunities for them to go to school
  • to build the organisational capacity of Maasai community groups (and other organizations) so that they can carry out advocacy, build partnerships and create their own development programs (development for health issues)
  • to work with other organizations and networks to contribute to the creation of favourable policies for human development in and outside Tanzania
  • to design and implement projects that create links between human rights, economic justice, and development