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Thriving Futures Community


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
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.

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

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Thriving Futures Community

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

Join the Movement

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

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

Our Approach:

Legacy

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."
L​​everina Ricardo, Niwiri village, Mucunha, Mozambique
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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%

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
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Sayaro Lenairerei, Nagilai Community, Northern Kenya | Legado

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

Legacy In Action

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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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:

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Program Funders

Legado and our Thriving Future Programs have been supported by a variety of generous foundations, corporations, and private donors, among them:
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