This week in Elerai, the Kesho Trust hosted two village meetings to discuss key environmental issues. The first meeting focused on plastic waste management, while the second, addressed pasture and rangeland resources as well as invasive species control. Participants...
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Formation of Environmental Conservation Clubs at Schools
On July 9, 2025, the Kesho Trust TZ facilitated a one-day training for environmental teachers from six schools in its SCMIKC project area, including Enguserosambu ward and Elerai village. The aim was to empower them with mechanisms to establish environmental clubs in...
Updates from the recent meeting of the Tz Board
On Friday, 4th July 2025, the Kesho Trust Tz board members, Peter Millanga, Emmanuel Ole Kileli, and Julius Daniel Paringo, met with visiting Canadian board member Bruce Downie, at the organisation’s office in Arusha to review recent activities. Discussion focussed on...
KT experience reported at climate change workshop
At a recent climate change workshop hosted by the Community Development Research and Services Organization (CORDS), Kesho Trust Director Peter Millanga Lumbambula presented our experience in facilitating village empowerment with respect to the impacts and...
A Message of Hope from One Indigenous Community to Another
When a group of Indigenous community members of the Carcross / Tagish First Nation from Yukon, Canada visited the Maasai of Ngorongoro and Elerai in Tanzania, everyone learned that their cultures are strikingly similar in the concepts, beliefs, and practices that...
Research Grant Available for Tanzanian Students
Are you currently enrolled in a post-secondary institution in Tanzania and looking for some support for your field research? Are you working in the area of land and water management and governance of natural resources within Maasai communities? Would you be interested...
Funded MA position at UVic
Interested in joining our recently funded SSHRC partnership project 'Indigenous Knowledge Bridging of Land and Water Governance in Tanzania and Canada? Or know someone who might be? We have a two year funded position for the appropriate candidate looking...
Recognizing Our Yukon Volunteers
We are very pleased to be able to highlight the work of the Yukon volunteers who have supported us over the years. The Northern Council for Global Cooperation (NCGC) invited us to provide background information for a storymap initiative (storymaps) that they have...
Maasai Traditional Knowledge Mapping
One of the primary activities identified in the initial planning of the Kesho Trust’s collaboration with and support of the Enguserosambu Forest Trust was to undertake traditional knowledge mapping of the cultural characteristics and use of their homeland. The...
UVic students’ Fundraising for KT
Reminder: Students at UVic who had participated in our field school in Tanzania last year had been developing a fundraising event for the Kesho Trust as part of their Global Development Studies course. With the spread of COVID-19 they have had to cancel the event and...