GRUMETI FUND PROJECTS FOR FUNDING 2025.

The Grumeti Fund relies on the generosity of donors to help us carryout our conservation and community programs. It is because of the generosity of our donors that we can continue to deliver impact. For this, we thank you and greatly appreciate your support.

TEACHING SUPPORT PROGRAM

$250,000 | Annual cost for 52 teaching fellows

The academic future of every child hinges on the quality of their primaryand early school education. Every course, class, and academic experiencestudents encounter after primary school builds on the foundation setduring their early education. Students rely on the quality and accessibilityof teachers during these formative years. Unfortunately, schools in thecommunities bordering the Grumeti concessions face extreme teacher shortages, leading to high student-teacher ratios that hinder students’abilities to learn. In some cases, student-teacher ratios are nearly 200 to 1,jeopardizing students’ learning, hindering their abilities to buildfundamental skill sets, and leaving them disempowered to ask questions,explore course material, or engage in extracurricular activities.

The Grumeti Fund’s Teaching Support Program addresses this challengeby placing 52 qualified teaching fellows into 26 local primary schools. Ineffect, the program reduces student-teacher ratios, improves student’sacademic achievements, increases their engagement in school, andfosters the potential and passions of each student through individualizedteaching and extracurricular activities.

AERIAL SUPPORT

$250,000

Annual cost of operating an aircraft for anti-poaching, research, & monitoring purposes.

CAMERA TRAPS

$7,500 | Annual cost

$200 | Cost of single camera

Camera traps help us monitor endangered and locally rare species like black rhino, kudu, and roan antelope.

ANTI-POACHING SCOUTS

$450,000 | Annual operating cost to deploy 132 scouts

$35,000 | Operational Equipment

$70,000 | New Staff Canteen

$140,000 | Scout Accomodation

$36,000 | Training costs

$7,500 | Uniforms

The Grumeti Fund scout force is comprised of 132 scouts, strategically deployed across the protected area in 12 scout camps. The growth in wildlife populations in the Grumeti concessions demonstrates their value to the future of this ecosystem. In order for the scouts to do their job as effectively and as safely as possible, they must be supplied with with proper equipment – GPS, radios, binoculars, uniforms, first aid, vehicles, and ammunition – as well as high quality living accommodations with access to nutritious foods. In addition, it is critical that the scouts are equipped to respond to medical emergencies and are highly trained in minimum force defense techniques, firearm training, and so on.

CANINE UNIT

$32,000

Annual operating cost of the Anti-Poaching Canine Unit.
Excludes handlers’ salaries

MOBILE PATROL UNIT

$2,200 | Cost of one new motorcycle

$55,000 | Cost of vehicle maintenance (annual)

$65,000 | Cost of new Land Cruiser (single-cab)

Vehicles ensure that our anti-poaching Mobile Patrol Unit can deploy rapidly to any part of the protected area.

ELEPHANT COLLARING

$60,000 | Annual cost

$5,000 | Cost to deploy one collar

COLLARINGCollaring elephants allows us to understand their movements, proving vital in our efforts to reduce human-wildlife conflict.

WILDLIFE WELLBEING

$300

Cost to de-snare one animal. Poachers’ snares are the primary cause of injury to wildlife in Grumeti.

RISE: RESEARCH & INNOVATION

$84,000 | Annual cost of supporting RISE students

$12,000 | In-person workshop on genomics, bioinformatics, and forensics for 20 people

$60,000 | Tuition for one year of graduate studies at an international university

$24,000 | Cost of internship program (annual)

$80,000 | Research vehicle for field research and training programs

$7,500 | Printing books for primary school conservation education program

$6,000 | Purchase of RISE lab equipment & consumables

RISE strives to connect scientific research with conservation needs, while providing opportunities and training for the next generation of Tanzanian conservationists. Amongst RISE’s paramount objectives is supporting Tanzanian graduate students at domestic and international institutions as they undertake research projects focused on the western Serengeti. RISE’s current graduate students are analyzing the economic, ecological, and social impacts of electric fencing, elephant demographics, vulture nesting patterns, and the distribution of invasive alien plants amongst others. In the future, RISE hopes to support graduate students focused on wildlife diseases, bush meat markets, and the evaluation of riparian restoration efforts.

WATER QUALITY

$14,000

Price of a Steelhead Water Assessment Logger that can monitor the health and quality of key river systems

SCHOLARSHIPS

$1,300 | Tuition per year of secondary school

$4,500 | Tuition per year of vocational studies

Scholarships are awarded to students at all levels, ensuring that students at every stage of their education can create and pursue their dreams.

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTRE

$100,000 | Annual operating cost

At the Environmental Education Centre (EEC), students and their teachers are exposed to critical environmental topics such as deforestation, poaching, soil erosion and water conservation issues that affect each student daily. The one-week, immersive course highlights the significance of a healthy environment and the importance of conservation through classroom and fieldbased lessons. In effect, the EEC builds students’ lasting passions and interests in the environment. Students have gone on to create tree nurseries, waste management systems, and debate clubs to further share the lessons they learned at the EEC with their schools, classmates, and communities

In 2025, we plan to host 512 students from 16 different schools.

RHINO RE-ESTABLISHMENT

$3,490,000 | Costs associated with the Rhino Project

$2,000,000 | Costs of acquiring a helicopter for security

$215,000 | Equipment costs for the project & its teams

$590,000 | Annual staffing & operations costs

$35,000 | Cost of selecting & training project staff

Eastern black rhino once roamed freely and abundantly in the Grumeti concessions, but like many other parts of Africa, their population was decimated by poaching seeking their coveted horn. Refusing to accept a future without eastern black rhino, the Grumeti Fund, in partnership with the Tanzanian government, initiated the Rhino Re-establishment Project in 2007, and since, they have reintroduced the formerly locally extinct species to the ecosystem. Wild rhinos from South Africa and a few breed in captivity in the U.K. and U.S. have been translocated to Grumeti as part of the project, in effect, increasing the population of eastern black rhino in Tanzania by nearly 10%. With adequate funding, the continuation of the project would more than double the population of black rhinos in the ecosystem, securing a future in which eastern black rhino thrive in the Serengeti ecosystem once again.

CONTACTS

MATT PERRY

Email: MattP@grumetifund.org
WhatsApp: +27 79 130 8755
TZ: +255 785 749 545

SKYLER NUELLE

Email:SkylerN@grumetifund.org
WhatsApp: +1 843 441 3566
TZ: +255 677 127 963