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Kilimanjaro Ecotourism Project

The Kilimanjaro Ecotourism Project.

In 1991 a piece of land next to the forest of Kilimanjaro National Park was given to Phil Furneaux who is the cofounder of the William Howard School, Cumbria, UK – Uru Secondary School, Tanzania Link. Phil’s intention was always that the community should benefit from the use of this land. In 1999 it was agreed by the Njari Village Committee that the land could be used as a campsite. It’s unique situation, being next to the forest with uninterrupted views of Kilimanjaro and next to a fast flowing stream, make it ideal for tourist use.

Now the campsite employs four people and contributes to the development of village projects through the Brampton Tanzanian Trust.www.bramptontanzania.com

The site is attempting to develop as an ecotourism venture by employing local people, buying local food where possible, contributing to the development of the village and conserving energy as much as possible.

More information on the Kilimanjaro Ecotourism Project can be found on the website: www.kilimanjaroproject.com

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Brampton Tanzania Trust

UK registered charity no. 1072868

Welcome to the Brampton Tanzania Trust web site

April 10th, 2009

kilimanjaro_small.jpgBTT raises funds in response to specific requests for help with small-scale projects from Tanzanians who live in the four villages that make up Uru North on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro.

All of these projects are identified, planned, costed and supported with volunteer labour and their own expertise by the villagers themselves.

We hope that you find the site useful and enjoy looking round to:

* find out about us

* keep up to date with progress on projects

* enjoy the photos

* shop with Amazon through this site and we get a donation

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News of Recent BTT Projects (Nov 2011)

November 29th, 2011

This August we sent out money to support the Msiriwa Secondary School and the UNCODET replacement vehicle. Evarist Momburi (UNCODET Project Officer) is in the process of finding a suitable vehicle and the following report by Brian and Susan Wind shows how the school is progressing.

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Report on Msiriwa Secondary School

November 29th, 2011

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Evarist Momburi, Senior Academic Master, Head Teacher

In September we had the opportunity to visit Msiriwa Secondary School, which has been the subject of several BTT funding appeals in recent years and is just starting on the next phase of building work. We travelled with Evarist Momburi and were met by the Head Teacher, Mary Mushi, who explained the origins and organisation of the school, its current situation and her ambitions for the future. Msariwa is a growing school but has already joined the more established Kisarika School in providing state funded secondary education for the community, to complement the opportunities provided over the years by Uru Secondary School which is funded by the Diocese. Msiriwa School was created in response to the increasing number of young people passing the Primary School Leaver Examination following the introduction of compulsory and free primary schooling. Read the rest of this entry »

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Some more views of Msiriwa

November 29th, 2011

Msiriwa classrooms 2010-2007-2006

Msiriwa classrooms built in 2010, 2007 and 2006

Our thanks to Barbara Key, Head of Temple Sowerby Primary School who took these pictures during her visit in late October 2011 - they show lots of success but work still to be done.

Preparation for the new classroom

Preparation for the new classroom 2011

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Why BTT works well

November 29th, 2011

The way we work:

• We respond to project proposals put forward through our partner committee, UNCODET (Uru North Committee Development Trust). It represents the four Uru North villages.

• We receive detailed proposals that are clearly costed and include information about timing, the source of the 20% local contribution, plans for the future etc. As we are not able to fund any running costs this has to be thought through if relevant.

• BTT executive committee looks carefully at each proposal and any recommendations provided by UNCODET, and balances this all out with the funds available.

• Funds are sent out to support projects and they are used as quickly as feasible.

• UNCODET checks on projects, and of course we have a number of BTT members and friends who visit the Uru area and monitor progress as well.

**This all means that we know the money is spent directly to help the most needy.** Read the rest of this entry »

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Msariwa Secondary School Progress

June 19th, 2011

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Msariwa Classrooms being built

This government secondary school continues to develop and grow and as you can see from the recent photo some of the classrooms that BTT helped fund are now looking more established. There is still some way to go to provide the last classrooms needed for the complete school intake (see new project proposal) but it is fantastic to see such provision for the growing number of students who pass their primary school exams.

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The Goat Project - Next Generation Emerge

June 19th, 2011

Goat and Male Kid Mrawi

With fantastic support from many of you the goat project to support women headed households looking after orphans in Uru north is well underway, although it has yet to gather momentum. The young goats are less likely to have twins the first time round and as luck would have it there are more male than female kids. Strategies are being developed to cope with the glut of male kids and more twins should appear as time goes on. Lots more photos in Album. Read the rest of this entry »

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The NURU Centre

June 19th, 2011

Ball games at Nuru Centre

The centre for orphaned children is going from strength to strength with your donations going to improve the dormitories, and to decorations and basic office equipment and furniture. The rented land is being prepared for the planting of maize and beans in time for the rains and many other crops have been grown, including tomatoes from UK seeds! See more photos in the Photo Album.

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New projects

June 19th, 2011

BTT and UNCODET (Uru North Community Development Trust) work closely to fund and support the many community projects in Uru North. All current projects ( April 2011) are now well underway and we can consider new possibilities for the improvement of life chances in these desperately poor communities. UNCODET has recently proposed new projects and the BTT committee discussed them at our March meeting. They are all important and we would like to lend our support: BTT always requires a local contribution for all projects, so that the community has a real stake in their success. We have described the top priorities here.

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Last 3 New Classrooms for Msiriwa Secondary School Needed

June 19th, 2011

Msiriwa original buildings funded 2007

Msiriwa original buildings now

It has been great to see the increased success of education in the Uru area. Msiriwa now has a new Headteacher, Mary Korneli, and the photo, taken this Spring, shows students using the original buildings that were completed in March 2007 after the Government only giving the community 3 months prior notice. You may remember that the community set up the school with just enough classrooms for the first year intake. BTT has also supported them to build new classrooms each year to cope with each new intake of students. BTT provides 45% of the costs, the Tanzanian government 35% and the local community 20%.

The timing of this project is crucial: when each new group of students pass their Primary Leavers’ Exam, there must be a place available for them at a Government Secondary School for them to move on. If not, they will lose the opportunity to progress forever unless they can pay for a private school place. This means that the last group of 3 classrooms needs to be completed before January 2012 to satisfy the Government’s basic requirement for a fully operational school. We have been asked for £6,608.

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UNCODET Replacement Vehicle

June 19th, 2011

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Driving round Uru is difficult

All the projects that we support need to be carefully supervised and co-ordinated by UNCODET and they have huge problems given the rural nature of the area and poor roads (see photo). Read the rest of this entry »

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Welcome to MAMCEP website

Magoroto Mlinga Community Ecotourism Project works to improve conservation and sustainable use of Magoroto and Mlinga forests in the East Usambara Mountains in northeastern Tanzania. We work with forest-adjacent communities to motivate them and build their capacity in forest conservation and alternative conservation-friendly livelihoods, especially sustainable agriculture and ecotourism. Special focus is on conservation of the endangered plant Saintpaulia, the flagship plant of these forests. Our work includes:

* Training villagers in forest conservation and sustainable agriculture

* Implementation of sustainable farming methods and tree planting

* Mapping and assessing viability of the Saintpaulia populations

* Tourism training for the villagers

* Documentation of attractions and development of tourist trails

* Building basic tourism infrastructure

* Facilitating the establishment of a community-based organization (MAMCEA) to strengthen local communities' institutional capacity for conservation and tourism development

* Building linkages with important stakeholders

* Tourism marketing

Neil & guides on trail

Volunteer Neil and local guides on forest trail

Magoroto seen from Muheza town

Magoroto hills (in the background) are the water source for Muheza town

Mlinga Mountain seen from Amani

Project updates:

June - August 2011: The project phase III activities were implemented with the help of the Swedish grant: 1000 seedlings of Grevillea robusta and 366 seedlings of Acrocarpus fraxinifolius were purchased for farmers' agroforestry plots (planting will take place during the March-May long rain season 2012). The MAMCEA/local tour guides' office was furnished with a bookcase and the office library was supplemented with some new books. One tour guide was sent to a 1 month long further training in the Professional Tourguide School in Arusha.

May 2011: The Swedish African Violet Society awarded a small grant for continuation of MAMCEP.

December 2010: The final report of project phase II was completed.

15 Aug 2010: July and August were a busy period for tourism development. A course 'Introduction to tourism' was held in Mgambo village for 20 people and attractions in the village were documented as part of the course. The office of MAMCEA/tourist information center in Mwembeni was renovated and furnished. Volunteers Neil and Jenni taught English for the local tour guides and another volunteer Maria was documenting the current agroforestry practises, assisted by a revisiting volunteer Tapio, who also continued his bird surveys. A tourism promotion tour organised on 12/08 for 25 stakeholders of Tanga tourism industry also turned out a successfull event!

30 May 2010: Implementation of improved and sustainable farming methods was initiated in April and May by planting trees and by establishing macro-countour bands on slope fields. The contours were planted with perennial crops (sugarcane and pineapple). A total of 6,8 km of contour bands were established by 38 farmers in three villages. Moreover, 238 clove trees, 65 cinnamon trees and 275 Grevillea robusta were planted. Albizia trees were also planted (numbers will be available later).

31 March 2010: Training of 44 farmers on improved and sustainable agriculture was completed in March.

2 March 2010: Field activities were resumed in mid-February after a two months monitoring of nursery seedlings and routine patrols in selected forest areas. Generally, the rate of forest disturbance has continued to decrease in both forests. Training on sustainable agriculture was initiated in the project villages. Sample macro-contour lines and a compost manure pit were constructed by the trainees as a demonstration exercise.

MAMCEA was awarded the USAID Appreciation Certificate under the Community Environmental Awards Scheme for the year 2009.

21 Jan 2010: Magoroto Mlinga Conservation and Ecotourism Association (MAMCEA) is now registered as a community-based organization in Tanzania.

6 Dec 2009: Activities conducted in November: Seedlings of Grevillea robusta, cloves and cinnamon were obtained and distributed for trainees in all the 3 targeted villages. Albizia seeds sown in October did well in the seedbeds and most of the seedlings were planted to poly pots.

13 Nov 2009: Constitution of the Magoroto Mlinga Conservation and Ecotourism Asociation (MAMCEA) was officially signed in a meeting held in Mwembeni village. (MAMCEA is a joint organization of the villages surrounding Magoroto and Mlinga forests. It works for forest conservation and tourism development issues at village level in collaboration with various stakeholders)

6 Nov 2009: Activities conducted in October: A basic course on forest conservation and sustainable agriculture was arranged at the new target village Mgambo. Thereafter, training on tree nursery establishment was conducted for trainees from all three target villages at Mwembeni. Five seedbeds were constructed, Albizia spp. was sawn and poly pots prepared as part of the nursery training.

11 Oct 2009: Project phase II started in September. The project setup included communications with the project stakeholders, a general meeting in the new target village Mgambo, and a joint meeting of representatives from all three target villages. The village authorities were asked to identify areas of action where model farming methods will be practised.

16 July 2009: The Rufford Small Grants Foundation awarded a grant for the project phase II.

Collaborator institutions:

Amboni Sisal Properties Ltd

Tanga Catchment Forest Authority

Muheza District

The following institutions are acknowledged for their support for this project:

Rufford Small Grants National Geographic Conservation Trust

African Violet Conservation Fund

Swedish African Violet Society

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