Our Projects…

Community empowerment and dialogues on Srhr

We initiate community dialogues by creating safe spaces where members of the community (elders, women, youth and children) can freely express themselves and come up with local solutions to our local problems.

These talks are mostly around issues of sexual reproductive health and rights, for example: female genital mutilation (FGM/C), child marriage, teenage pregnancy, education and culture. Empowerment programs for women such as bead work and teaching them small-scale farming is also been part of our program.

WATER, SANITATION AND HYGIENE

Access to safe clean drinking water is a basic human need.

In pastoral arid communities, many people still cannot access clean drinking water. Most of the rivers available are seasonal and so most of them are forced to walk for hours to get water both for them and their animals.

We address this issue by mobilizing resources to either build new boreholes or repairing and maintaining the few existing ones.

During outbreaks of epidemics such as cholera,we do awareness creation, preventive measures such as providing bio-sand water filters to clean the contaminated water as well as helping the affected people. 

climate action

Eleven percent of the world’s population is currently vulnerable to climate change impacts such as droughts, floods, heat waves, extreme weather events and sea-level rise. The maasai community is clearly represented here, this is because the prolonged droughts and extreme weather is making their tradition of nomadic pastoralism less sustainable.

There is therefore need to introduce an alternative source of food, nutrition and livelihood security. We are doing this at Nashipai by introducing permaculture and sustainable agriculture to Maasai.

Permaculture is the design of land use systems that are sustainable and environmentally sound; the design of culturally appropriate systems which lead to social stability; a design system characterized by an integrated application of ecological principles in land use and planning.

By doing so, we create a community that is self sustainable, environment conscious and with zero hunger.