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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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Skills, tools and start-up capital so women earn independent income and hold decision-making roles in their communities.

Showing 2 of 10 programmes in Women's empowerment.

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