What's been happening in the villages and along the park boundaries, January to March 2026
We thought you'd like to know what's been going on with the communities and partner projects that we are involved with.
Investing in Education
A handful of classrooms in rural Tabora B, on the edge of the Serengeti, are finally finished. They’ve all had a good coat of paint, and the walls are now covered in fun and educational images. 286 students have a better place to learn than they did three months ago. It’s a basic change but it has made a big difference to both pupils and teachers.
Twenty-six youngsters have been added to our bicycle programme this year and these are kids who are averaging eight kilometres from home to school each day. This distance means an early start and a long walk in the dark, and that is before a lesson has even started. At the end of the day, a long way home again. A bicycle doesn’t solve everything, but it makes getting them to and from school quicker and safer.
In Nyerere, Ruaha and Katavi, our education outreach trips included time spent with 440 children; in all these places, schools sit right on the edge of the national park, where the pressures of living alongside wildlife, tends to affect everything, including whether a child gets to school at all.
Our aim is simple, but not small. We use the reach of our safaris to help create real opportunities, where they matter most.
Getting care to the people who need it
We joined our medical partners with a focus on child health and cancer screening and saw more than 400 people in a single outreach trip to Tarangire. Conditions that might otherwise have gone undetected for years, were caught early enough to treat.
Ten bunk beds have gone to a ‘halfway house’, to give children coming to Arusha for surgery, and travelling from far away, a safe and comfortable place to sleep. This gives them time to rest and breaks up their tiring multi-day journey.
And eight solar batteries have been installed at a health centre outside Mahale, because reliable power is the difference between a functioning clinic and one that will struggle to do its work in darkness. It also means equipment can be charged, and vaccines safely stored in refrigerators.
Growing things, planting things, protecting things
Out along the park boundaries, our chicken project is growing with more birds and new coops, in Nyerere and Katavi both. The women running these projects are getting poultry training and it’s a sustainable way for them to earn a steady income from their own homes.
In Katavi, 581 trees have been planted for households around the park boundary. One tree at a time, one household at a time, we’re getting there.
On the front line
And for the farmers who spend their nights out in the open, watching over their crops, looking out for elephants, we’ve donated 125 pairs of boots and raincoats for the Mamire farm guards. Chili bricks are on order for farms alongside Nyerere, to help deter crop raiding this season.
You help to make all of this possible.
Our safaris create jobs, support community projects, and help fund conservation work that links people and wildlife in a more positive way. When wildlife supports livelihoods rather than threatening them, attitudes change and protection follows. Communities are able to shape the change themselves and sustain it long after we’ve stepped back.
As always, thank you so much for being part of it.