CONSERVATION & COMMUNITY

Nomad Tanzania, owners of Chada Katavi, set up the Nomad Trust in 2007. The Trust supports wildlife and people in the remote areas in which Nomad operates where, bordering the national parks, human and wildlife conflict can often be found.
The Trust also partners trade, health and educational organisations in Arusha, where their head office is based. Sidai Designs work with Maasi women who create high end beaded jewellery that is attractive to the Western market yet still maintaining the traditional skill of their craft. The jewellery can be found for sale in some of Nomad’s camp shops. The Trust also supports Shanga, a local social enterprise whose handmade glassware, produced by people with disabilities, is used in the camps and so providing them employment and income.

The Plaster House in Arusha is a home which helps children with physical disabilities from all over Tanzania by offering the surgery they require. The Nomad Trust raises awareness of such health problems by running programmes in the communities close to their camps, where often such impairments are hidden, and so enabling them to seek care from the Plaster House.

In Katavi, Nomad supports the Landscape and Conservation Methods Organisation (LCMO) which works to improve the relationship between humans and wildlife by creating village ambassadors and by organising environmental youth clubs to educate the children. They do this through various means including dance festivals, film nights, bird watching, lion defenders, tree planting and bee keeping. They also support schools and clinics in the local villages, providing basic supplies as well as outreach programmes. Guests at Chada are given the opportunity (donation fees apply) to visit the LCMO and local communities to see some of these projects and experience rural village life. Guests can also get more involved by donating a beehive, building an energy-efficient ‘rocket stove’ or experiencing the Sukuma tribe traditional dance ceremony.

Nomad are members of Pack For A Purpose and guests at Chada may use the space in their luggage to bring in donations of goods for the school students, youth clubs, lion defenders and beekeepers of the LCMO.