Nashipay Maasai Initiative (NMI)

About us

Nashipay Maasai Initiatives (NMI) is a not-for-profit civil society organisation that struggles to empower pastoralists of Makuyuni and beyond by promoting and supporting appropriate education, nature conservation that respects community rights and sustainable livelihoods.
At the midst of all, we help communities to tackle rural poverty and especially making sure that rural women have access to and control of economic resources, including land, and influence over markets and investments to ensure sustainable food security and resilience to disasters, especially those induced by climate change.


We envision a resilient, self-sustaining, and informed local community that is able to adapt to, thrive in, and engage creatively with the contemporary Tanzania

Our mission statement
Nashipay Maasai Initiatives is guided in its work by three key missions
• Create opportunity through education.
• Build sustainability into our community through environment and economic initiatives.
• Conserve our environment by living and working guided by Maasai ways of knowing.

Our aim
We are committed to gender equity and inclusion, and to upholding the dignity of all those we work with.

Our projects:
Accessible & Culturally-Affirming Educational Opportunities
• Nashipay Maasai School
• Mobile Classrooms & Trainings for Adults
• Learning Camps
Environmental Sustainability & Food Security
• Tree Nursery project
• Permaculture & training
• Bio-gas production
• Solar power
• Water projects
Sustainable Tourism & Cultural Exchange; Promoting and generating tourism to the area with a focus on respectful and educational cross-cultural encounters
• Eco-village accommodation
• Homestay & cultural programming for visitors
Economic Independence & Income Generation
• Goat sharing & Goats for Kids program
• Nashipay Duka
• Women’s beading network
• Sustainable Tourism & Cultural Exchange

Clamian Kitesho is the Managing Director of Nashipay Maasai Initiatives (NMI).

For other net participants we can offer an expert guidance through trained staff, give an expert opinion, procure expert information and establish new contacts in the field of our work.