Friends of Usambara Society

Friends of Usambara Society The first non-profit grassroots organization in the Usambara Mountains that uses tourism to benefit

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About FoU:
The Friends of Usambara Society is a grassroots organization that uses sustainable tourism to conserve the nature and culture of the Usambara Mountains region. Our guides are professionally trained, certified, and several have diplomas in Tourism Travel A

gency management. They all adopt and implement a tour guide code of conduct and ethics, speak very good English, and are familiar with the area. Our friendly and reliable guides can tell you many stories about the history, daily life, and local cultures of the West Usambara peoples.

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P. O Box 151, Tanga
Lushoto

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+255787094725

Website

http://blog.usambaratravels.com/

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We would like to thank the Lushoto District Office under honorable @japhari_kubecha, Lushoto Council Office, and the leaders of Uhuru Torch 2025 for this exceptional opportunity to visit our office and witness firsthand the tremendous effort we constantly put into making sure that our environment is a welcoming place for everyone. On behalf of the Friends of Usambara Society team, we sincerely appreciate this, and we believe that our greetings will be passed to our excellent and honourable Dr. @samia_suluhu_hassan. Tanzania is one country, and it is up to us all to care for it. Working together, we can create a powerful nation

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Find us on TripAdvisor: http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g3532549-d630294-r133567102-Usambara_Mountains-Tanga_Region.html About FoU: Friends of Usambara Society (FoU) is a prolific grassroots non-profit organization that uses sustainable tourism to preserve culture and conserve nature of the Usambara mountains region. FoU is widely known for its popular Cultural Tourism Program, which apparently attracts hundreds of tourists annually and serves as an appendage for generating resources needed for sustaining FoU’s core organizational activities including community based projects. FoU is directly involved in community-based environmental awareness creation and education campaign, biodiversity conservation, as well as combating desertification and promotion of sustainable forestry in an effort to slow global climate change