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Thriving Futures.
Thriving Planet.

We support Indigenous communities to build
healthy communities and landscapes.

We do this by activating the power of legacy.

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Members of the Mucunha community in Mozambique celebrate their achievement of land tenure | Roshni Lodhia/Legado

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Your donations directly help local communities achieve climate justice.

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Indigenous Peoples control much of the world’s remaining biodiversity

Yet their local perspectives are rarely included in development.

It’s time to change that.

Samburu women in a ceremony praying for rain in Northern Kenya | Roshi Lodhia/Legado

It's Time To

Thriving Futures.
Thriving Planet.

We support indigenous communities to build
healthy communities and landscapes.

We do this by activating the power of legacy.

Learn more

The Carlitos family takes their crops to market on Mount Namuli, Mozambique | Roshni Lodhia/Legado

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Your donations directly go to helping local communities achieve climate justice.

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Legado supports people to create their legacies and build their Thriving Futures.

Our Approach:

Legacy

How We Do It:

360° Community-Led Change

The Outcome:

Thriving Futures

"I'm proud to help lead my community towards implementing our legacy plan. There are many others like me, including many women, who want to move these plans forward and achieve our vision for our future."
Leverina Ricardo, Niwiri village, Mucunha, Mozambique

Leverina Ricardo gathers selected eucalyptus wood to fire community-made bricks during the building of the first regional health post — a community Thriving Future priority | Legado

Our Impact*

112,400

lives transformed

126

partner communities

^99%

sustained forest cover across lands stewarded by our partner communities

91^%

of the 106 community-identified priorities in process supporting community health, growing livelihoods, and protecting biodiversity directly driving local government planning.

100^%

community land titled leading to tenure security around Mt Namuli

*EOY 2024 Projections

Mount Namuli foothills, Mozambique | Roshni Lodhia/Legado

"I am a leader because I play a role in choosing my leader to represent me and following up with them to make sure that our voices through this [legacy] plan are heard. This is not only for my benefit but for all.”
Sayaro Lenairerei, Ngilai Community, Northern Kenya

Sayaro Lenairerei, Nagilai Community, Northern Kenya | Legado

We are women-led.
Hear from our other women leaders.

Legacy In Action

Protecting women’s
health in Kenya

Securing land rights
in Mozambique

Reforesting key areas for biodiversity and traditional medicine in Mount Namuli

Watch Legacy

Legado's 4-minute film, showcasing the true power of legacies and what it takes to build Thriving Futures around the world. Shot in Mozambique and Kenya in 2022 by Roshni Lodhia, Legacy features Mayanae Lemojong and Inácio Josefe Napalacué, two of our key community ambassadors.

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$250Starts one woman on her legacy journey so she can lead change in her community

$500Invests in a family so they can achieve their legacy goals to better education, health, and environmental outcomes for their community

$1,000Supports a community-wide Legacy Plan to incorporate local wisdom and create enduring change

$5,000Launches an initiative to help fulfill a wide range of community priorities, whether it's building a maternity shelter, restoring a rainforest, building a primary school, and so much more

Program Partners

Legado partners with regional and local organizations to work across their team to co-create Thriving Futures in a way that best meets the priorities of the communities they serve. Current and past partnerships include: