Vegetable garden-Mahale

The Nomad Trust recently partnered with a local CBO (community based organization) called the Tongwe Trust to run a small but productive vegetable garden at the airstrip in Mahale.  The vegetables are sold to Greystoke camp at Arusha Market prices, and the profits go back to the Tongwe Trust.   We have noticed that for the first time in 10 years this garden is making a profit suggesting that vegetable gardens oriented toward a specific market are more likely to be successful.
Nomad Trust recently provided a new water pump and a back pack sprayer with some fertilizer for Pai, the gardener to use to irrigate the garden and maintain soil nutrient levels.  This is not viably a long term solution, and we are currently looking for funding to do a training course in soil improvement through the use of organic fertilizers and pest management through sound cultivation techniques which would reduce dependence on some of these inputs from the Nomad Trust.

A meal a day-Katumbi Nursery class

We were recently lucky enough to get funding to be able to continue to provide the nursery class with one meal a day.  The older school kids help prepare and hand out the porridge to the kids during their mid morning break.  This simple meal not only increases school enrollment and attendance but it aims to combat classroom hunger, slowly we hope to be able to address the issues of malnutrition.

Katumbi Nursery Class-Mahale

I just got back from a wonderful trip to Mahale.  I got to spend a day with the kids in the nursery class that the Nomad Trust started up and continues to fund.  The kids now all have little uniforms and black boards and look very smart compared to 6 months ago when the project first started!

Climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro for the Nomad Trust

The wonderful Nigel and Nicki Palmer have single handedly transformed Katumbi Primary School, in Mahale through their incredibly generous and continued support of the work that the Nomad Trust does there.  Through the Palmers we have been able to installed solar power-the first source of electricity in the area, a computer lab for the students and teachers, and provide scholarships for deserving students to carry on their secondary education at a private school in Kigoma.  The impact of their generosity has been far reaching and life transforming for the students of the school.
Nigel and Nicki are returning to Tanzania at the end of the month to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro and raise more funds for Katumbi.  Please support them in their endeavor.

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Chimp murder in Mahale

This is incredible-please have a look.
http://www.nomad-tanzania.com/blogs/greystoke-mahale/ 

Nomad Trust - latest newsletter!!

To read more about the Nomad Trust and all the projects and activities that we support, please download our latest newsletter HERE.

Included this month is an update on the Mwalimu school in Ololosokwan, Loliondo and a very generous donation from a UK school group.