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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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Tree planting, mountain and coastal clean-ups, and environmental education across the Kilimanjaro and Ngorongoro regions.

Showing 3 of 10 programmes in Environmental conservation.

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