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Nomad Conservation Fund

Nomad Conservation Fund is a UK based charity founded to raise funds to help conserve wildlife, habitat and wilderness in Tanzania.

About Nomad Conservation Fund

Charity Category:  Environment

Tags: Wildlife conservation Animal Welfare Environmental & Climate Causes Conservation & biodiversity

Nomad Conservation Fund is a UK based charity founded to raise funds to help conserve wildlife, habitat and wilderness in Tanzania. The charity aims to achieve this through conducting health, education and local community programmes designed to drive conservation objectives into and across some of the most remote and under serviced parts of Tanzania and harnesses the support of communities who live with and beside wild animals to preserve the precious wilderness.

Your Impact

Donations help to support conservation and social projects with active commitment to sustaining Tanzania’s wildlife and habitat. We share just a few of the projects the charity supports to help you understand our mission:

CONSERVATION

KopeLion
Across much of Africa, lions are in dramatic decline. KopeLion works with local Maasai and other pastoralists to foster human-lion coexistence in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and protect corridors of lion movement between the Crater and the Serengeti. KopeLion adopt a very successful model of using local ‘Ilchokuti’ (lion guardians) in the area to help address and mitigate conflicts between pastoralists and lions.

Canines for Conservation
To support the challenges of smuggled wildlife products, the Canines for Conservation Programme trains and deploys detection dogs to trafficking chokepoints—airports, sea ports, border crossings—to uncover illegal shipments of ivory, rhino horn and other wildlife products.

FZS Desnaring Programme
The FZS led de-snaring program send teams of rangers out to find poachers’ camps and remove wire snares from around the Serengeti ecosystem. Run by the Frankfurt Zoological Society this fantastic program is making a serious dent on the illegal trapping and poaching of wildlife in one of our most significant ecosystems.

HEALTH

The Plaster House
The Plaster House enables children from all over Tanzania, to receive corrective, orthopaedic, plastic or neuro surgery for disabilities such a cleft pallet and club foot, as well as rehabilitative post-op care. The charity supports outreach programmes in communities helping raise awareness on health problems suffered by many children in
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Maternity Africa
Maternity Africa provides fistula treatment and maternity care for all marginalised women throughout Tanzania. Prevention services are provided through maternity care for early pregnancy complications, antenatal, birthing and postnatal care, including 24-hour obstetric emergency cover and onsite transitional neonatal care for newborn babies, offering surgical intervention for fistula and other birth-induced injuries. They also offer a family planning service to inpatients and the local community.

EDUCATION

The Hope Centre
The Hope Centre runs two safe houses in the Butiama and Serengeti Districts of the Mara Region of Tanzania, which shelter and support those fleeing Female Genital Mutilation, child marriage and other forms of gender-based violence. The girls are offered free classes in vocational training such as tailoring and computer skills to become independent and help generate income and provide for their families, making them less vulnerable.

More than a Drop
The school offers young women, between 18 and 21 years of poor social-economic background with limited or no access to higher education, the opportunity to obtain necessary qualifications through a one year hospitality training course. The course teaches students the most important skills required by hotels of the mid and upper class and prepares them to self-reliance and self-determination of life.

Africa Amini Alama
The projects offer children and young adults from deprived family’s education within primary and secondary school settings to learn English-language and computer skills to enable their education, training in vocational skills such as carpentry, masonry, mechanics and tailoring, enabling them to have a self-sufficient future.