About us

Organization Background

The Maa Pastoralists Transformative Organization (MAPATO) is a local NGO registered in March 2023 with its registration No. 00NGO/R/4458.

Its major thematic areas include Environmental management and building community’s resilience in climate related issues, economic emancipation, education, and cultural transformation and restoration.

MAPATO aims to work with men and women, youths, people with disabilities to bring about an inclusive and equitable society that embraces humanity (Osotwa) principles.

The organization works closely with both men and women traditional leaders to facilitate their mind set transformation that will create opportunities for youth and people with disabilities to exercise their full economic and political potentials.

Mapato is a member-based organization with its both voluntary and honorary adult members of the community provided that they aim to fulfill the vision, mission, and objectives of the organization. The organization’s leadership is at three levels: namely General assembly, board of directors and its management.

Mapato is guided by the common ethical values such as:
Fairness, Transparency, Professionalism, Integrity, Truth, Accountability and Responsiveness.

Our Key Priorities
The Pastoral livelihood system is at thresholds due to its nature of economy. They are remotely living far away from cities where all social services are accessible. In this regard, they suffer from inaccessibility of social services, cultural disparities, gender inequalities, land insecurity, inadequate knowledge on mother earth management, and inaccessibility to financial services as they lack proper assets for collateral purposes and lack of employability skills.
Organization Vision
Mapato envision a justice society to all its members and to its surrounding environment.
Organization Mission
To improve pastoralists’ economic emancipation, environmental management, and cultural transformation and restoration.

Specific Objectives of the organization

  • To diversify the modes of livelihoods of pastoralists in order to attain their full economic emancipation by all members of the community.

  • To enhance pastoralists cultural transformation and restoration as a vehicle to acquire their full potentials, heritage, and happiness.

  • To improve and sustain the Pastoralists ways of environmental management for their current and future livelihoods.

  • To promote and enhance the quality of education for the Pastoralists in the periphery settings.

Our projects

In the beginning of the year 2024 the organization inception meeting was conducted in Kirtalo village where the office is located. The introduction was done at the presence of the organization members and the leadership of the same village.

Trees seedlings from the Ngorongoro District Council

Training and guidance of tree planting by members

Planting trees in the new Olosirwa primary school.

Membership registration form​