CORDS Executive Director leads a delegation from Liberia, Zimbabwe & Sweden to study Longido’s pastoralist land-use model, witnessing conflict reduction and sustainability gains through community-led planning.

From grinding poverty to grinding maize how CORDS’ innovative microloan program empowered Maasai women to break cycles of deprivation and build sustainable livelihoods in rural Tanzania.

For Tanzania’s Maasai communities, small-scale investments in infrastructure and microloans are rewriting the story of survival one family at a time.

In Tanzania’s drought-stricken Maasai region, a simple school garden is feeding 752 students, reducing absenteeism by 40%, and teaching climate-resilient farming proving small seeds can yield big change.

A sanitary pad incinerator at Longido Primary School ended period shame, keeping girls in class. Students now learn with confidence in a cleaner environment. ‘No more stress I can focus on studies,’ says one girl.