Livingstone Tanzania Trust
| Name | Julian Page |
| Country | Tanzania |
| Website | www.livingstonetanzaniatrust.c om |
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We are a self help development micro-charity working seeking to alleviate poverty in the community by providing meaningful, applicable, sustainable and replicable education facilities. LTT seeks to educate both children and adults alike to give them the knowledge and the skills to work their own way out of poverty and live a full life. Our Strategy is to: - 1. Improve the student education environment by repairing buildings, reducing class sizes, improving the teaching resources, training the teachers and improving their knowledge. 2. Improve the health of the community by improving diet and teaching personal and domestic hygiene and disease prevention. 3. Develop a sustainable source of income for the school to pay for the above. (Being dependant on donations and grants is not sustainable or desirable)
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The Role of tourism in development
posted on Monday, November 10, 2008 03:31 PM
Government in Tanzania is seeking to increase the number of tourists visiting to over 1 million by 2010 and by all accounts they are going to achieve it.
But what benfit is that to local pople?
It might be argued that the boost in government income allows the bigger picture projects to be started and if this were the case we would all be very happy. BUT precious few of the benefits of tourism trickle down to the poor, which is a shame because tourism could and should be playing a far greater role in the development of the country and poverty allevaition that it is.
LTT are setting up pro-poor income generating schemes that seek to use the company profits to fund local development work. The initial investment comes from cultural tourism, volun-tourism and philanthropic donations.
If helping out in any of these areas is something you think you could do, please email me.
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