Community first
The people of Tsunza-Mwache lead the work and share directly in its benefits. Nothing is done to the community, everything is done with it.
About
A community protecting its own coast
Community Touch Kenya is a community-based environmental organisation on the Tsunza-Mwache peninsula in Kwale County, restoring mangroves, building sustainable livelihoods and running eco-tours that fund it all.
Dusk over the Mwache creek, Tsunza-Mwache peninsula
For the people of Tsunza-Mwache, the coast is not a view. It is home, larder and inheritance, and it moves to the rhythm of the tide.
This is a fishing community shaped by the water. For generations the mangroves along the creek have broken the waves, sheltered the fish and held the shoreline together. But years of cutting for fuel and timber, and a changing climate, thinned the forest, and with it the catch and the protection it once gave.
Community Touch Kenya grew out of a decision to turn that around, not with a project that arrives and leaves, but with the people who live here. The guide who reads the tide is the same person who fishes by it and plants along the creek. Restoration, here, is daily life.
Protecting a coast by giving people a stake in it
A forest recovers over years, not in a single planting day. So alongside the nurseries and the replanting, we build livelihoods that make a healthy coast worth keeping: sustainable mariculture in the creek, crafts made from what the land gives, and eco-tours that invite visitors to take part rather than look on. Every tour plants mangroves and pays the community directly, turning a day out into restoration that lasts.
Culture holds it together. The crafts, gatherings and the annual Ngoma ya Mulungu rain-dance at Kaya Chonyi centre on the TSUMBUCOFA hall, where livelihoods, heritage and conservation meet.
Sustainability
Our work and the Global Goals
Restoring mangroves, farming the creek in balance, guiding visitors and hosting research all pull towards the same end: a coast that stays healthy and a community that thrives on it. That work maps directly onto the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
What guides us
The values behind the work
Restore and protect
We grow, plant and guard mangroves for the long term, because a coast recovers over years, not in a single planting day.
Livelihoods that last
Mariculture, crafts and eco-tourism give families reasons and resources to keep the environment healthy.
Knowledge, shared
We host research and pass on what we learn, from tides and species to restoration that actually works.
Help us bring the coast back
Donate, volunteer or partner with us. Every route supports the Tsunza-Mwache community and the mangroves it protects.