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LEAD Foundation 🌿 Restoring Tanzania's landscapes with local communities through nature-based solutions.
🌳 34+ million trees restored
👨‍🌾 250,000+ farmers engaged
📍 Tanzania

LEAD Foundation is an NGO based in Mpwapwa, registered with the Government of Tanzania.

09/10/2026

We give nature a little nudge, and the results never disappoint. 🌱

Dry, cracked and degraded, the soil in Mbugani, Iringa could no longer hold water or support a harvest. They had given up on this land before we swooped in and our local communities picked up their hoes and dug half moon bunds.

Now look at the same land, one rainy season later.

Each half moon catches rainwater, slows runoff and gives the soil a chance to heal. That little nudge from our communities is all it took. Restoration starts at the grassroots level!

Land doesn't fix itself. We train local communities to dig half-moon bunds.🌙Our half-moon bunds are designed to catch ev...
06/10/2026

Land doesn't fix itself. We train local communities to dig half-moon bunds.🌙

Our half-moon bunds are designed to catch every drop of rain before it runs off, holding water where the soil actually needs it. We dig enough of them across dry rangelands, and rain that used to wash away starts soaking in instead.

One rangeland, a whole army of bunds, doing the work of holding the landscape together.

02/10/2026

From bare red earth to a living landscape 🌱

Watch five years of restoration unfold from above in Pembamoto village, Kongwa District, Dodoma.

It began with half-moon bunds dug by hand across degraded, eroded land. Two years later, grass took root inside each one. By year three, the green was spreading and the bare soil started to close. Five years on, a thriving landscape stands where the land was once barren.

Project implemented in collaboration between .tz and

Restoration isn't just about nature. It's about healing the land and strengthening its people. 🌾A restored landscape mea...
30/09/2026

Restoration isn't just about nature. It's about healing the land and strengthening its people. 🌾

A restored landscape means more than green cover. It means families with enough food to get through a dry season, income from land that used to give them nothing, and communities equipped to keep leading the work themselves, long after any project ends.

That's why LEAD Foundation trains Champion Farmers, not just plants trees.

Healing the land and strengthening the people on it aren't two separate goals. They're the same one.

Dry season to rainy season, same tree, same spot, four years apart 🌳Back in 2021 this was just a sapling getting its fir...
29/09/2026

Dry season to rainy season, same tree, same spot, four years apart 🌳

Back in 2021 this was just a sapling getting its first protection. Fast forward and look at it now, holding its own through the dry months and bursting to life when the rains come.

That's the beauty of Kisiki Hai. You're not planting from scratch, you're protecting what's already fighting to grow. Give it time and the land remembers how to heal itself.

Same farmer, same patch of ground, a completely different story 🌱

18/09/2026

This is the power of Nature-based Solutions. 🌱

Our half-moon bunds may look simple, but they carry deep purpose: slowing runoff, harvesting rainwater, and giving the land a chance to breath, regenerate, and hold life again.

Together with local communities in Igoji village, Mpwapwa District, Dodoma, we are quietly intervening to ensure a powerful ripple effect: better water retention, healthier soil, and the first signs of vegetation finding its way back.

One year later, the results at this site are already promising, and we're excited for what's ahead as the rangeland continues to heal. This is what restoration looks like, not overnight, but season by season, bund by bund, community by community.

How do farms thrive in dry areas? 🌱💧We are training our farmers to fight drought the natural way, with a shovel and a pl...
15/09/2026

How do farms thrive in dry areas? 🌱💧

We are training our farmers to fight drought the natural way, with a shovel and a plan. It's called Fanya Juu/Chini, simple rainwater harvesting trenches dug along the slope of the farmland.

🔼 Fanya Juu, "throw it upwards": trenches on the lower side that catch rainwater and let it soak into the soil, keeping every drop where the crops need it.

🔽 Fanya Chini, "throw it downwards": trenches on the upper side that block excess runoff from washing through the farm, stopping soil erosion before it starts.

Together, these trenches turn dry, cracked land into thriving green farms, one contour at a time.🌳

11/09/2026

For over 30 years nothing grew here 🌱

So, together with the local communities, we dug 5000+ half-moon bunds to slow runoff, harvest rainwater, and reduce soil erosion.

Today, life has been brought on nearly 100 hectares of the rangeland; moisture stays in the ground longer, vegetation has returned, and the community has better grazing land and more resilient livelihoods. This is proof that a simple, low-cost technique, led by the people who live there, can turn degraded land green again.

Project partnership between .tz and in Pembamoto village, Dodoma, Tanzania.

Zoom in. There’s more to regreening than bringing back vegetation🌳As degraded rangelands recover, grass grows again, liv...
07/09/2026

Zoom in. There’s more to regreening than bringing back vegetation🌳

As degraded rangelands recover, grass grows again, livestock find more forage, wildlife finds food and habitat, and communities gain new opportunities from the land they depend on.

From birds nesting among restored vegetation to giraffes browsing, livestock grazing and communities harvesting grass seeds, every part of the landscape begins to benefit.

Regreening doesn’t just make landscapes greener. It brings them back to life.

Two years of transformation. 🌱These half-moon bunds were first dug in December 2024 in Magombwe Village, Iringa Region, ...
02/09/2026

Two years of transformation. 🌱

These half-moon bunds were first dug in December 2024 in Magombwe Village, Iringa Region, to harvest rainwater and give degraded rangeland a chance to recover.

Two years later, the change is taking shape. Vegetation is returning, the land is becoming greener, and regeneration continues.

Restoration takes time, but when rainwater stays, life returns.

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Plot 125 Kilimani, Box 1823
Dodoma

Opening Hours

Monday 09:00 - 17:00
Tuesday 09:00 - 17:00
Wednesday 09:00 - 17:00
Thursday 09:00 - 17:00
Friday 09:00 - 17:00

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+255262322786

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