Mazingira Kwanza Foundation (MKF) is a non-government organisation formed by environmental enthusiasts to protect and preserve the environment by facilitating various stakeholders, particularly vulnerable individual groups such as women and youth in accessing resources to be able to engage in various economic activities for their sustainable economic development and eliminate poverty while preserving the environment. It consists of people who are sincere and humbly dedicated to assisting and facilitating the development of mankind and restoration endeavours of environment nature. Our organization has been working with different environmental stakeholders to sensitising and mitigation missions such as Kazi Mzumbwi Forest restoration funded by Kisarawe District under Kingonet, also the empowerment of young vulnerable groups in Kisarawe District to eradicate poverty.

This project aims to give women more agency so that they can gain access to agricultural land to implement their social and economic development initiatives. The project will encourage both men and women to participate in a training program designed to increase their knowledge and, in particular, to encourage men to alter their behaviour and stereotypes in ways that will open up more opportunities for women to work the land. More than that, the program will provide men with a more nuanced understanding of women’s perspectives. It will allow them to move beyond seeing them as objects of amusement and instead include them in social and economic development decisions, particularly regarding land access and the distribution of agricultural goods. Meetings for raising awareness, training, support, networking and advocacy that actively involves those who will ultimately benefit from the project (the right holders and duty bearers) are the mainstays.