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A community-owned hay bank at Lemongo, near Amboseli, that stores fodder in the good seasons so that livestock, livelihoods and grasslands come through drought.
02About this project
Drought is the hardest season for families who keep livestock alongside wildlife. Ubuntu Hay, the second phase of the Olchani Project, answers it with foresight: community members harvest grass, bale it and fill a community hay barn built with them and for them, so there is feed in store when the rains are late or fail.
Stored fodder means livestock can be kept through a dry season without stripping the grasslands that wildlife depends on, and it gives families a buffer that protects their animals and their income. Women, men and young people run the hay bank themselves, with ifaw as partner, and its chairman, John, leads the work on the ground.
Ubuntu Hay launched in mid-2025, and the community carried out its first harvest and baling in September that year. The foundation describes it as climate resilience stored for tomorrow and economic empowerment created today.