Kilimanjaro Water Initiative

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Fund water education, catchment restoration and monitoring across the Kilimanjaro landscape.

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Why Your Gift Matters

Small Organisations Turn Money Into Work Very Quickly

KIWI runs one clean water programme across four schools. There is no large overhead here, no layers between a donation and a river.

What limits the work right now is not willingness or need — it is resources. Sampling nets, transport to catchments, education materials, seedlings, protective gear for cleanup days. These are modest costs with immediate, visible effects.

Give once, or give monthly. Regular support is what lets us plan a term of school sessions rather than a single day.

Four students listening attentively at the front of a KIWI classroom water session
A student in a KIWI t-shirt using a sampling net midstream to collect a water quality sample
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Where Your Money Goes

KIWI is small, so the path from a donation to a riverbank is short. There is no large administrative layer in between.

100% into the landscape

Prefer to give another way?

  • Bank transfer — contact us for details
  • Mobile money — available locally in Tanzania
  • In-kind giving — equipment, seedlings, transport
  • Corporate giving — see partnership options
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What Donations Fund

Four Things Your Gift Pays For

These are the actual line items behind our work — not categories invented for a fundraising page.

Primary school students raising their hands enthusiastically during a KIWI water education session

Water Education

Materials, facilitation and transport for school sessions where students learn where their water comes from and what threatens it.

KIWI facilitators and students collecting a water sample with a net to assess river quality

Monitoring Equipment

Sampling nets, trays, identification guides and recording tools — the kit that turns a river walk into usable water quality data.

A large group of students and volunteers celebrating at the end of a KIWI river cleanup day

Restoration Work

Tree seedlings, planting, riverbank stabilisation and the cleanup gear that makes catchment restoration days possible.

A small group of students and facilitators examining a stream with a sampling net

Spring Protection

Protecting water sources from contamination and encroachment, so that the communities depending on them keep clean water.

Students and facilitators filling the first waste bag during a KIWI river cleanup
Transparency

We Would Rather Be Trusted Than Impressive

Accountability is written into our strategic pillars, and it applies to money as directly as it applies to water.

Honest reporting

We publish results as they come in — including the parts that did not go to plan.

No inflated numbers

We tell you we work with four schools because we work with four schools.

Communities decide with us

Programmes are designed with the people who live in the catchment, not for them.

Ask us anything

Questions about how funds are used are welcome.

Thank You

Every Contribution Reaches the Water

If you would rather give time or bring an organisation into the coalition, those routes matter just as much.

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