support maAsai community
THE MAASAI COMMUNITY IS FACING A LOT OF CHALLENGES
Droughts
Droughts are an impediment and an existing threat to the maasai community. The maasai people are largely pastoralist and a few have adopted crop farming as a result of their diminishing herds.
Water Shortage
Lack of water subjected these communities to danger and fear of existence. Men could migrate to as far as 100 and more kilometers in search of water and pasture for their livestock while women and children are left to languish at home, a mantra that branded the maasai people as nomadic pastoralists. Women will be waking up at every sunrise and walk up to 10 kilometers one way and come back home carrying water in containers of more than 20 liters on their backs. This has subjected so many of them to diseases such as back-aches stroke and others. Nevertheless, they have no alternatives other than to share the scarcely available pools of water with wild animals.
Poverty
Drought and water shortage has led to poverty which has finally resulted to lack of basic needs in many homes. These means lack of food, lack of water, lack of funds.
Education
Parents are unable to afford school fee for their children. A further problem is, that girls are unable to get sanitary towels; this one largely deprived maasai girls the right to education due teenage pregnancies that made them to drop of schools hence early marriages.
Hunger
During the strike of Covid-19 pandemic, the entire community was at the verge of collapse. Hunger had hit nearly every household, very many children were malnourished and more than 150 from Narok and Kajiado starved to death.
PRESERVING CULTURE, OVERCOMING HARDSHIP
Our Mission
We want to build a society free of hunger and end water shortage in maasai land by 2035.
Our Vision
We strive to reach out to disadvantaged livelihoods, restore hope, peace, social justice and enable people to live in dignity and security.
Who we are
I am James Nkuito
I grew up in this land and it’s uncomfortable to seat back and watch, a community descending to extinction.
Donate
We invite you to join us in empowering the Maasai community by contributing to our project. Your donation will help provide essential resources, education, and healthcare, ensuring a brighter future for the Maasai people. Every contribution, big or small, makes a difference. Thank you for your generosity!
One borehole costs
One borehole can provide enough water to more than 40 families (each family has an average number of 10 members). That means 1 borehole serves 400 people and more than 3000 livestock.
kshs3.9 million
an equivalent value of
USD 30'470.
Please help
Due to a shortage of funds, we were unable to drill the necessary number of boreholes to provide clean water for the whole community. We are kindly seeking donations to help us complete this crucial project. Any contribution, big or small, will make a significant difference. Thank you for your support.
OUR PROJECTS
Girls Secondary School Sanatory Towels
11th, August 2023 at Enkare Nairowua Girls Secondary School during Sanitary towels donation:
Amongst the mentioned effects of drought is poverty, and as a result, so many girls continue to drop out of school due to parent’s inability to support their education. Girls from these backgrounds also could not afford sanitary kits for their menstrual hygiene. I also delved into this activity of providing sanitary kits to girls in schools at least to contribute to their academia; I distributed 600 sanitary kits to Enkare Nairowua Secondary School.
Clean Water - Boreholes
Donated and now used by Iltalala, Esilalei and Olchorro onyokie communities:
From 2020 we have mobilized a partnership with individuals and a few organizations to find sustainable solutions to end water shortage within the whole of maasai community landscape.
As a mitigation criterion, we did boreholes to a few communities through collaboration and shared effort with other organizations. These boreholes provided enough clean water for livestock and human consumption. Since one borehole can provide enough water to more than 40 families and each family has an average number of 10 members. Regrettably, we were unable to drill sufficient boreholes due to a shortage of funds.
Food Donations
Food donations during Corona pandemic to Kikurrukurr village, Majimoto Village and donation Oloorkileleng’ and Enkiu communities:
We teamed up with supporters and we raised funds to feed these people. We donated 60 sacks of maize, 40 sacks of beans, 400liters of cooking oil, and 10,000 liters of drinking water to every village; a population of 400 people. An approximate budget of kshs.1,000,000, an equivalent value of USD7,812.5 catered for all these food stuff. This was my monthly program during the entire Covid19 period since the community was at a crisis. On a monthly basis, we managed to reach out to the villages of Nchaishi, Kikurrukurr, Iltalala, Oloorng’anayio in Narok County and Ilbisil, Lepolosi and Magadi communities in Kajiado County.