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IHO gives loans to Maasai women to carry a wide range of trading activities, buying and selling livestock, natural honey, cooking oil, bead work and other items...... |
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IHO MISSION |
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Our Mission is to provide opportunities for Socio-economic development through ecotourism & cultural tourism and see that tourism presents advantages and enhances the cultural integrity of indigenous population.
Cultural assets includes indigenous people who inhabit most of the tanzania wild areas, among the best know are the Maasai, who continue to tend their livestock in national parks. Others are the Datoga and Hadzabe and a vast majority of 120 tribes. Nearly 20 rural communities organize tours to allow tourist to share experiences of their daily life and hardly share benefits from such tours to improve living conditions in the villages.
While it is unlikely that all but a dedicated few tourist would visit Tanzania exclusively for its cultural assets, their existence adds to the richness of the diversity of the tourist products. In ngorongoro the shifting send is a sacred site and place of prayers and the laitole footprint is fenced and forbidden for grazing. The Ngarusi livestock dam was stopped to final construction. IHO provides opportunity for participation of the planning and implementation of policies rgarding indigenous heartlands and make sure that benefits accrued to eco and cultural tourist are proportionally shared with indigenous people. |
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