UPDATES AND IMPACT STORIES

For decades, CORDS has worked alongside Tanzania’s pastoral communities to address gender inequality, livelihood challenges, environmental conservation, and inclusive education – creating transformative impact through women’s empowerment, economic resilience, and sustainable development.

Dignity Rising

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.

Global Leaders Learn Land Solutions in Longido

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.

Economic Emancipation

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.

Investing in Change

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

Seeds of Change

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.