Improving conservation to ensure healthy, sustainable communities
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We Have the Power to Impact Our Future, and We’re Doing Something About It
The Kesho Trust supports communities to develop a greater awareness of the value of protecting the environment while finding innovative ways to improve sustainable livelihoods.
We believe in empowerment through partnerships and we work with local community partners.
Our work is guided by these important values:
- small scale;
- partnership; community based;
- facilitation;
- exchange of experiences;
- and, inclusion.
Vision
A world where healthy, strong communities live in harmony with their environment and are instrumental in ensuring that the protected areas and conservation lands they live alongside are thriving and achieving the objectives for which they were established.
Mission
To facilitate and support community led activities that foster positive relationships between local communities and the conservation of their protected areas. We work with community organizations and individuals to facilitate and enhance their capacity to achieve long term sustainability of community based conservation and development initiatives. Activities include direct conservation measures, sustainable community livelihood initiatives and environmental awareness and education.
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Tanzania Field School 2026
Dusty roads, wonderful people, frustrating power and internet, hyena calls around the camp at night and great new adventures and learning experiences all combined to make the 2026 field school a memorable one. The group of 20 students, 19 from UVic...
Advancing the Elerai Culture Camp
The Elerai culture camp is being advanced as part of the Strengthening Commitment to Maasai’s Indigenous Knowledge and Culture for Enhanced Climate Resilience in Tanzania (SCMIKC) project, supported through GEF–The Kesho Trust grant agreement, supervised by UNIDO....