Did you know? When the World Wildlife fund listed the top 200 areas with the highest and most threatened biodiversity, 95% of the areas were Indigenous territories…

The Indigenous peoples of our planet are often thought of as the primary stewards of the planet’s biological resources.

Their traditional ways of life, living in synchronicity and harmony with the environment around them, have largely contributed to the protection of natural environments we all depend on, thus preserving life for future generations.

To maintain the ‘First World ‘ society  these precious environments and the Indigenous peoples that protect them are constantly and increasingly under threat from agro-industrial projects including farming, mining, oil drilling and logging.

The Maasai are an indigenous and majestic tribe of East Africa, they have been conservationists since time immemorial. Their careful land tenure and harmonious living with the wild animals that share their land has helped maintain one of the most important ecosystems in Africa and guaranteed a future for tourism, the regions strongest industry.

Sadly in recent centuries the grazing lands of the Maasai and other pastoralist communities such as the Hadzabe Gogo have been continuously reduced by colonial appropriation, commercial wheat estates and the creation of game parks and private ranches.  They have been fenced off and evicted from lands that were traditionally and legally theirs, which has had a devastating impact on their nomadic pastoralist way of life, forcing many of them into poverty and hardship.

OUR VISION:

To empower our people and the greater pastoralist communities of Tanzania in sustainable socio-economic development whilst preserving our cultural heritage and the lands we dwell on.

OUR MISSION:

To enable the pastoralist communities of Tanzania to adapt to the changes impacting on our traditional way of life through education, entrepreneurship and improving livestock practices.

PALEDO is a Non-Government-Organisation established and directed by Nicholaus Ntasikoi Ole senteu of the Maasai of Eworendeke Village to help our pastoralist communities and the greater Maasai of East Africa. We are a village of 3500 Maasai nestled at the foot of Ordony-orok Mountain on the boarder of Kenya and Tanzania. Our people have suffered a 5 year long draught and what is looking like permanent climate change in the Great Rift Valley. With the reduction of our grazing lands, our nomadic lifestyle herding livestock is no longer completely viable to sustain our humble existence.