Skills to Share. Futures to Build.

Who are we?

  • A world in which East African communities are able to regrow themselves from the inside out.

  • We connect leaders to the people, practices, and tools they need for their communities to grow.

    1. Community Leadership / or Local Leadership-Ownership

    2. Regeneration

    3. Mutualism

“ Umoja Maono is a  living ecosystem of impact organisations, change-makers, and locally-led projects that regenerate communities and grow leaders as they do. We connect leaders to the people, practices, and tools they need for their communities to grow. ”

Umoja’s Legacy Projects

  • Tanzania's First Community-led Regeneration Center. Ormame, Maasai tribe, 2024. -

  • Participatory Design and Trainings in Regenerative, Socially-responsive Architecture, 2024.

  • Safeguarding and Relocation projects. Kenya & Tanzania. 2022 -

  • First Community Preschool for Sinoni, Arusha. 2020 -

  • Second Community Preschool in Arusha, for vulnerable families. 2023 -

  • School Farms & Lunch Programs across preschools. 2023 -

  • Community Trainings & Nutrition Programs. 2023 -

  • Cross-border Expert Permaculture Exchanges. 2023 -

  • First women enterprise groups, Olnjavutian. 2022 -

  • Play-based school programs & Teacher Trainings. Arusha, 2022 -

  • Indigenous Maasai women empowerment & enterprise groups. 2025 -

  • Joseph Eugen Mbowe

    CO-FOUNDER

    Chairman of Tanzanian UMHO Branch & Director of EVCO

  • Sara Stojkanović

    CO-FOUNDER

    Operational Management & Staff leadership and development

  • Qaim Rajwani

    FOUNDER

    Strategic Development Coordinator