A “Thank you” from Emmanuel
Emmanuel has completed his diploma program at the Coady Institute in Antigonish, NS. He will be providing us with some further reflections on his courses and the ideas he has developed at the institute in later journals that will be posted on our website. He is now...
Kihembe Dedication Ceremony
The village of Mkange supports the development of the Kihembe Environmental Learning Centre. They have dedicated land for its development and have now conducted a traditional dedication ceremony on the land preparing the way for facility development. Our staff member,...
Kihembe Fundraising Kickoff Event
On November 1st we held the kickoff fundraising event for a campaign that will raise the funds necessary to construct the Kihembe Environmental Learning Centre in Mkange, Tanzania. Kihembe is our joint project with Saving Africa's Nature [SANA] that is so important in...
Planning for a Volunteer with PALISEP
I met with PALISEP representatives twice on my recent trip to Tanzania. The first meeting in Arusha with Samwel Nangiria and Robert Kamakia reviewed the requirements for volunteer support through the Kesho Trust that would be intended to build the capacity of the...
Initial facilities at Kihembe
A joint field visit by Kesho Trust [Peter Millanga and I] and SANA [Costa Coucoulis and Ally Abdallah]. We travelled from Dar es Salaam to Mkange where we met with village representatives to discuss the onsite implementation of the initial Kihembe facilities. We also...
Research Contributions
The Kesho Trust encourages research to support the work in which we are engaged and we want to support and benefit from the work of qualified researchers on relevant topics. We have assisted Mr. Brock Bersaglio in his search for funding support and he is soon to...
ICAAD Assessment
Ms. Sue Enfield from the UK was the successful consultant in our recent proposal call to undertake a learning and impact evaluation of the ICAAD project. She has recently completed her field investigations, visiting the four districts – Hai, Moshi, Morogoro and...
Building Kihembe Partnerships
Two members of the Kihembe management team Costa Coucoulis and Bruce Downie met with Regine Qualmann, the Country Director of German Cooperation [GIZ] in Dar es Salaam recently. The German development organizations have a long history in conservation in Tanzania...
I-CAN Inception Meeting
Leaders of the I-CAN project [International Canopy of Conservation] from McGill University and the Africa Conservation Centre in Kenya are meeting with the donors in Ottawa this week to initiate the project. The Kesho Trust is participating n the project with our...
I-CAN Kicks Off
This week the leaders of the I-CAN project are meeting with the project donors, the Social Science and Humanities Research Council [SSHRC] and the International Development Research Centre [IDRC], to finalize details of the project implementation. I-CAN is led by...
Call for Proposals
The Kesho Trust is seeking a consultant to conduct a learning and impact evaluation of our ICAAD initiative - a two year project focused on empowering groups of disabled people to advocate for inclusion at local level. Further information on this proposal is provided...
Reflections from Emmanuel
Reflections from Emmanuel on one of his Courses at the Coady Institute We reported earlier on Emmanuel Ole Kileli, Chair of our partner organization EMAYO, and his acceptance to undertake a diploma program in International Development at the Coady Institute in...