'PEACH' - preserving East African co- operative heritage

This pilot project is designed primarily to identify significant endangered co-operative materials in Tanzania and investigate the potential for relocating them to a safer environment in order to prevent their loss and deterioration and to preserve the heritage. Co-operatives have played a central role in all East African countries in both pre- and post-colonial times, yet their history and signficance has been largely overlooked by researchers. The absence of any systematic preservation of archival materials relating to co-operatives has undoubtedly played a major role in this.