The Maa Trust works alongside community-owned wildlife conservancies to promote conservation through sustainable development around the famous Maasai Mara National Reserve.
While the conservancies protect wildlife and host tourists, the Maa Trust provides additional benefits for local people, assisting with income generation, education, infrastructure and access to water.
Two local businesses – Maa Beadwork and Maa Honey – provide much needed incomes for Maasai women. The beadwork scheme alone involves 580 women from 15 villages, benefitting 11,000 people. Schools receive infrastructure development, student bursaries and sanitation facilities. Community rainwater harvesting facilities each cover 1,800m2 with 500,000 litre storage tanks, allowing over 15,000 people to access clean, safe rainwater.
Species Protected: African Elephant | African Lion
Tusk Trust - The Maa Trust
Honey comb and hive. © Nick Spollin
Tusk Trust - The Maa Trust
How Tusk works with Our Project Partners
We provide critical funding to enable our project partners to grow and increase their impact on habitat and wildlife, while also enabling, nurturing and supporting collaboration between them, for greater synergy and impact.
We help to increase awareness and wider support for our partners’ efforts, while also sharing important conservation messages, from the vital and varied roles of wildlife rangers, to the benefits of community-driven conservation, both within Africa and internationally.
Maa Trust has been a Tusk partner since 2011.
This Project Makes a Difference Through…
Environmental Education
Local Population Employed: 42
Area Protected: 540,000 ha
