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Rows of pale green beehives standing in a meadow of yellow wildflowers near Karatu, with two Maasai beekeepers walking between them.

Karatu — hives placed with households through the Asali Project.

Our work

Ten programmes, chosen by the communities that run them.

Education, water, clean energy, women’s livelihoods, health and conservation. Each programme is funded on its own, states what one unit of it costs, and shows how far it is from its goal this year.
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Showing 10 of 10 programmes.

A close group of pre-school children in red polo shirts and navy uniforms waving and grinning inside their classroom at Moshi Kids Centre.

Moshi, Kilimanjaro

Moshi Kids Centre

Children who lose a parent, or whose family cannot cover fees and uniform, drop out early and rarely return. Once out, they are counted by nobody.

84 of 120 children

$35 one month at the centre

The whole Maasai Pre-School assembled in front of their green classroom block, holding the charity banner and a 'Supporting Maasai Future' sign.

Ngorongoro

Maasai Pre-School Project

Children arriving at primary school without any early-years education fall behind in the first term and often never catch up. In pastoralist communities the nearest pre-school can be a two-hour walk.

7 of 12 classrooms

$120 one month of a classroom

Photography to come

Ngorongoro Conservation Area

Ngorongoro Water Project

Women and girls walk for hours each day to collect water that is often unsafe. Time spent walking is time not spent in school or earning.

13 of 20 points

$250 one month of a water point's operation and upkeep

Roof-mounted solar panels on a rural school building, the array that powers its classrooms and evening study sessions.

Kilimanjaro and Ngorongoro

Solar Energy Project

Schools without power cannot run evening study, cannot charge a laptop, and close when the light goes. In exam season that is the difference between a pass and a fail.

9 of 15 schools

$75 one panel and its share of the battery bank

Zainab Ansell with women of a tailoring group at the handover of new treadle sewing machines, the boxed machines on the tables in front of them.

Ngorongoro and Karatu

Women Make a Change

Women in pastoralist communities rarely control household income. Without their own earnings they have little say in whether a daughter stays in school.

186 of 300 women

$90 one woman's training and start-up stock

Rows of pale green beehives standing in a meadow of yellow wildflowers near Karatu, with two Maasai beekeepers walking between them.

Karatu

The Asali Project

Families living beside forest need income from it. Charcoal burning pays quickly and destroys the thing it depends on.

268 of 400 hives

$50 one hive, suit and training

Two people kneeling on a Maasai blanket, easing a tree seedling out of its bag before planting it beside a water tank.

Kilimanjaro region

Tree Planting Project

Planting is easy and survival is hard. Most campaigns count seedlings in the ground and never return to count what lived.

31,400 of 50,000 trees

$2 one indigenous seedling, planted and logged

A pickup truck piled high with sacks of collected waste at the end of a cleanup day, Mount Kilimanjaro on the horizon behind the volunteers.

Kilimanjaro National Park

Mount Kilimanjaro Cleanup

Tens of thousands of climbers a year leave behind waste that porters are not paid to carry down.

7,250 of 12,000 kg

$40 one porter-day on a cleanup team

A Mount Kilimanjaro Porters Society volunteer watches from the foreground as a line of cleanup volunteers in blue shirts stands in the shallows along the Tanzanian coast. His shirt reads “Together we can conserve environment for sustainable tourism”.

Tanzanian coast

Ocean Cleanup Project

Plastic on the shoreline damages the fishery that coastal families live on, and there is no municipal collection to remove it.

9,600 of 20,000 kg

$30 one community collection day

A goat handover in the Ngorongoro highlands — a fieldworker in a charity shirt applauding as the animal is led to the women receiving it.

Kilimanjaro and Arusha

Community Outreach

Families two hours from a clinic do not attend one until something is already serious.

29 of 48 days

$60 one outreach day in one village