2016 donations:
On June 3, 2016, the board of the Trolltech Foundation decided to make the following grants to:
* Africa Startup:
NOK 100 000 for a reading lab in Gambia.
Africa Startup is a Foundation based in Norway with the mission to improve livelihoods in Africa and around the world, through education in agricultural innovation, environmental protection entrepreneurship and new innovative learning methods for basic literacy, numeracy, logic and concepts.
* Nenkashe Education Center:
NOK 100 000 for partial financing of an education center for girls in Kenya.
Nenkashe Education Centre (NEC) is a Non-Profit Organization which aims at addressing the plight of the pastoralist girls (and boys) at risk of adverse traditional cultural practices.
NEC supports 39 orphaned and vulnerable children who are at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM) and early marriage to access education. We combat illiteracy and soaring school dropout rates by offering mentorship and counseling services to children in need. We offer legal services and operate a safe house in Kajiado County where sponsored children who are at risk of early marriage and FGM are housed when school is not in session.
* Nashulai Maasai Conservancy (previously I see Maasai Development Initiative):
NOK 1 676 000 for a project for leasing land from local Maasai in Kenya to fight poverty, conserve wildlife and run a tourist business.
Nashulai Maasai Conservancy is a new conservation programme which plans to increase biodiversity in private lands sharing a border with Maasai Mara National Reserve to the north by creating a wildlife conservancy. The location of the conservancy is critical as a wildlife migratory corridor which supports the reserve and other conservancies in the wildlife dispersion area.
Because the conservancy is adjacent to the Maasai Mara National Reserve and the settled area near Sekenani, it is critical to stop human encroachment and fencing which is starting to mark parts of the migratory corridor. This problem must be controlled and one innovative way of finding a workable solution to the dilemma is to engage land owners in the formation of conservancies.
Nashulai Maasai Conservancy will work with 40 land owners who have already signed the lease agreement for 3,000 acres to introduce a sustainable land use programme within the conservancy which will improve biodiversity and bring more benefits to the environment, the people and the wildlife. More landowners have expressed interest to lease an additional 1,000 acres.
The main goal of the Nashulai Maasai Conservancy is to engage landowners to carry out sustainable conservation of the conservancies’ 5,000 acres and provide a low density safari experience for high paying tourists.