Youth Empowerment
Eighty youth in Longido and Ngorongoro received start-up kits from CORDS, in partnership with Stromme Foundation, to help them turn vocational skills into sustainable self-employment and improved livelihoods.
Financial Growth
Through a Community Managed Savings Group (CMSG), Nalari Julius transformed a small loan into a thriving grain business, improving his family’s income and demonstrating how community savings empower sustainable livelihoods.
Talking Classroom
The Talking Classroom transformed learning for 65 COBET (Complementary Basic Education in Tanzania) pupils with desks, books, and hope restoring confidence, dignity, and dreams through inclusive education at Longido Primary School.
Bonga participant, in a vocational training center.
Meet Nangaimug Luka, a 14-year-old girl from Longido in Tanzania. Nangaimug is a proud participant in the Bonga program, where she completed a comprehensive 6-month life skills training.
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.
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.