ethical junction

The Livingstone Tanzania Trust (LTT) is a self-help development micro-charity working to alleviate poverty in rural Tanzania 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 size, 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 prop-poor source of income for the school to pay for the on going maintenance costs of the above.

We seek to continually monitor our projects and operations to ensure that the impact we have on the community is positive.

We have a strong belief that the project is ultimately owned by the community. To create a degree of ownership and responsibility for it, we encourage their participation in which ever ways they can. We do not want to encourage dependency We have 5 trustees who each bring different skills to the table and we regularly communicate with each other to ensure our activities are responsible and ethical and acceptable within the local culture.