🐾 Conservation With Purpose
The Nanyaro Foundation
Our community school in Karatu, Tanzania, and the long-term commitment behind it. Every dollar goes straight to the ground.
🐾 Conservation With Purpose
Our community school in Karatu, Tanzania, and the long-term commitment behind it. Every dollar goes straight to the ground.
Kingse runs on a simple promise. The people who plan your safari are the same people who run it on the ground in Tanzania. The Nanyaro Foundation is the other half of that promise, the way we use what we've built to put something back into the communities at the edge of the parks we work in.
We named it after the family of Peter Nanyaro, who runs everything on our side in Tanzania. Pete's father was a pastor in the area and his family were farmers, so this one is personal. The Foundation is how Kingse backs community projects across Tanzania, one at a time, and sees each one through. This is where it starts.
Our first project is a small school that teaches the youngest children, a pre-primary class and the early grades. It runs out of a few old rented buildings, and the land beneath them, ground that once belonged to Pete's family, was taken by the bank over an old dispute and was headed for auction.
That's now settled. In July 2026 Kingse bought the land back outright, A$38,000 paid by the business directly, not by donations. The ground under the school is in safe hands for good. From here the work turns to the things most schools take for granted, power, clean water, proper toilets, enough classrooms and teachers who are paid. That's exactly where the Foundation goes to work.
🐾 The Plan
We're not promising it all at once. We're doing it in the order that matters, starting with what everything else depends on.
Bought back outright in July 2026, A$38,000 funded directly by Kingse. The ground under the school is in safe hands for good.
Clean running water, electricity and proper toilets. The basics everything else depends on.
Real classrooms to replace the old rented rooms, so the school can grow.
Fair pay for teachers, and books, uniforms and materials for the kids.
Grown year by year, grade by grade, so a child who starts here can finish here.
🐾 What We're Raising For Right Now
The land's secured. Next up is water, power and proper toilets. Watch the bar fill as we get there, every dollar goes straight to the ground.
Land secured, July 2026
A$38,000, funded directly by Kingse, not from donations.
Secure donations through GoFundMe. We cover the fees ourselves, so 100% reaches the ground. We're not a registered charity, so donations aren't tax-deductible, they go straight to the kids.
On many of our Tanzania trips the road through Karatu is already part of the route, usually around day five, between the Ngorongoro Crater and the Serengeti. Guests who'd like to are welcome to stop in at the school, meet the kids, and see exactly where the foundation's work goes.
There's no staged voluntourism and no pressure. Just an honest look at the community behind the safari. Plenty of guests have ended up helping out after a visit, in their own way and on their own terms. That part is always their call, never built into the trip.
We spend our working lives showing people the wild side of Tanzania. The communities at the edge of those parks are part of the same story, and Karatu is Pete's. Putting something back where he's from felt less like charity and more like finishing a sentence we'd already started.
Yes, if you'd like to. On many of our Tanzania trips the road through Karatu is already part of the route, usually around day five, between the Ngorongoro Crater and the Serengeti. If you want to include a visit, just tell us when we're planning your trip. It's always optional and never built into the price.
No. We don't run staged volunteering or put guests to work for photos. A visit is simply an honest look at the community and the school the foundation supports. What you do beyond that is entirely your call.
Yes. You can give directly through the donate button on this page, handled securely through GoFundMe. We cover the platform and transfer fees ourselves, so 100% of what you give reaches the ground. If you'd rather talk it through first, just get in touch.
The land is sorted. It had been taken by the bank over an old dispute and was headed for auction, and in July 2026 Kingse bought it back outright, funded directly by the business, not by donations. From here your donations go to power, clean water and proper toilets, then real classrooms, then paying teachers and keeping supplies on the shelves, and over time growing it into a full primary school so a child who starts here can finish here.
Yes. It's one of the parts of a trip that travelling families remember most, and the kids on both sides tend to get on immediately.
If you're travelling with us, you're welcome to stop in at the school, meet the kids and see exactly where the work goes. If you'd like to help from afar, every donation goes straight to the ground.