About the Kuru Family of Organisations

The Kuru Family of Organisations (KFO) is an affiliated group of eight NGOs working in Botswana and South Africa that has the common goal of empowering the most vulnerable group of indigenous peoples in southern Africa, namely the San, to take control over their own destinies through a holistic process approach to development. Through Letloa Trust, KFO also supports the Botswana arm of the Working Group for Indigenous Minorities in Southern Africa (WIMSA). KFO’s work currently reaches 40% of the San in Botswana and 70% of the San in South Africa..

Recognising that the San are often integrated into other communities and have neighbours from other tribes, KFO also works with other minority, marginalised groups such as the Hambukushu, Wayei and Herero.

Most of the KFO members were established when the old Kuru Development Trust was devolved into separate entities. Kuru Development Trust was formally set up in 1986 but some projects had started three years earlier so many of the KFO staff have years if not decades of experience working in self help development.