Help Establish the Simanjiro Savory Hub!

Life has not been easy for the Maasai of East Africa.

It has become increasingly challenging to continuing to practice a traditional pastoral lifestyle, raising livestock and caring for large extended families.

Climate change has led to years of drought and the Maasai of Tanzania have recently been told to relocate from the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.

Terrawatu's Founding Co-Director Lekoko Ole Sululu has had land in Simanjiro District for several years. Between Ngorongoro and Tarangire National Park, this area is ideal for livestock keeping combined with agriculture.

Sululu moved his cows to Simanjiro and started to farm on the land.

The drought was bad, so we installed a borehole with a solar pump so the cows didn’t die. His team there started selling water to their Maasai neighbours.

Sululu began encouraging his Maasai people to get some land in Simanjiro and move there as it is ideally located in and near ancestral lands. Many Maasai have now moved to the area.

Knowing that this situation - Maasai who want to continue to graze livestock moving to new land - is a prime opportunity to practice holistic management and regenerate degraded grasslands, Terrawatu reached out to Allan Savory and the Savory Institute.

Savory Institute's mission is to regenerate the world's grasslands. Their vision is in complete alignment with Terrawatu's: indigenous know-how integrated with cutting-edge science, working with both ways of knowing to create a resilient future.

Ole Sululu and his apprentice Edward Richard travelled to Kenya in May 2024 to visit the Savory Hub there in the Maasai Mara.

They were so impressed with what they learned they implemented practices immediately back in Simanjiro.

Terrawatu then applied to become an accredited Savory Hub and has been accepted as a candidate!

In September 2025, Ole Sululu, Edward and Co-Director Dr. Tanya travelled to the Africa Center for Holistic Management (ACHM) in Zimbabwe, the headquarters of Savory Global, to learn directly from the team there.

Terrawatu has 18 months to train up Ole Sululu and Edward as Hub leaders and create an implementation plan to become a fully-fledged accredited Savory Hub.

Maasais from around the region will come and learn how to continue their pastoral lifestyle, scientifically-enhanced to create healthier livestock, farmland, grasslands, and communities. This work will not only transform the land in the region and help reverse desertification, it will have a big, positive impact on Mother Earth.

As the sign at the ACHM reads "THE EPICENTER FOR HUMANITY'S FUTURE"

You can help be part of this exciting development. To begin the accreditation process, we need $10,000 to pay for travel, activation, training and launch activities.