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The Youth Engagement and Environment Program (YEEP) is a comprehensive capacity-building initiative aimed at delivering conservation education and livelihood-focused interventions for youth in schools and villages across the remote rural areas of Katavi, Tabora, and Rukwa regions.Targeting both in-school and out-of-school youth aged 12 to 35 years old. Formerly known as the VIMA project, YEEP is dedicated to promoting environmental protection and enhancing the livelihoods of young people through various approaches.
This program focuses on educating local school children about conservation, the environment, and wildlife to instill a sense of environmental ownership and inspire future conservation leaders. We engage students through school wildlife clubs using hands-on and creative methods, including classroom sessions, Conservation Educational Park trips, eco-studies, conservation film screenings, conservation arts, and eco-friendly livelihoods like home gardens, waste recycling, and artworks.
We support students from families of former lion dancers (killers), their supporters, and marginalized families with low incomes who depend heavily on natural resources. By providing uniforms and class materials to these families, the program aims to reduce reliance on harvesting charcoal, bush meat, timber, and fuel wood for income. This fund also seeks to alleviate the financial burden on parents and guardians living near reserve boundaries and promote conservation values.
The Greening Campaign aims to enhance and sensitize environmental quality through active tree planting and maintenance of natural forests within village lands in the Mpimbwe and Nkasi District Councils, in ensuring habitat restoration.
In partnership with Nomad Tanzania and Kafika House, we coordinate to access treatment for children under 18 years old with physical deformities such as deformed limbs, clubfoot, cleft lip and palate, masses, hydrocephalus, burn scar contractures, and spina bifida. This support builds trust, connection and social capital among the community we work with.