The Maa Trust

A total of 1463 members of the community in Enooronkon, Orkarkar, Ntipilikwani, Laila, Mararianda, Ropile, Empopongi and Imbitin were reached in the various services mentioned thanks to our partner @chaseafricaphe

In the month of July, we held medical camps in 8 different villages in Maasai Mara. Services offered include; basic curative, family planning, deworming, immunization and HIV testing services.

Our Intergrated Community Healthcare Project focuses on increasing accessibility uptake and quality of healthcare services for communities in the Maasai Mara.

Training includes Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) and Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM). #community #themaasaimara #AquaNirvana #developementbecauseofwildlife #water #UnitedNations #developementbecauseofwildlife #sustainabledevelopmentgoals #themaacommunity

This will be the 7th water project after Olkuroto, Olesere, Enooronkon, Oloosokon, Rekero, Aitong and Kipolto. In addition to the construction of water projects, The Maa Trust places a large emphasis on water, sanitation and hygiene education within communities and schools.

The Maa Trust launched the Nkirgir community rainwater harvesting project on Saturday, thanks to our partner @aquanirvana . The project is set to serve 277 household which is around 2000 people.

Maa Beadwork items on display by Maliasili at the IUCN Africa Protected Areas Congress in Rwanda. #maasaimara #maabeadwork #themaacommunity #womenempowerment #sustainablelivelihoods

We appreciate the support of the dedicated scholarship sponsors allowing these vulnerable children to continue with their education. To learn more on how to support us, please visit themaatrust.org #educationbecauseofwildlife #scholarship #education

We congratulate our 6 scholarship children that recently completed their high school Currently, they are going through the International Computer Driving Licence (ICDL) training at our Talek Youth Friendly Center.

We congratulate our 6 scholarship children that recently completed their high school education and performed very well. They will all be joining different tertiary institutions to pursue the careers of their choice.

We had a very fun-filled day with all the children in the school as we played different sports. According to the UN Convention on the Rights of Children, “Every child has the right to rest and leisure, to engage in play and recreational activities" #childrights #UnitedNations

In addition to the right to education, every child has a right to play. To achieve this, our child rights programme organized a fun day at Ilbaan Primary School on the closing day to let the children play, have fun, and just be children.

This demonstration farm will be used for training women and youth how to grow oyster and button mushrooms over the next few months through our livelihood skills training programme. #socialentreprise #themaasaimara #MaaCommunity #Maasai #Mushroom

Our mushroom farm has been rebuilt and is ready for the button mushrooms that will be planted and carefully monitored by our Agribusiness Assistant this week. Mushrooms can be a valuable source of both nutrition and income generation for local entrepreneurs.

For many of the children, this is the first time that they have their own brand new clothes and shoes and as you can see, they are absolutely delighted. #educationbecauseofwildlife #themaatrust #themaasaimara #community #education #Children #maasai #themaatrust

As schools re-open this week, children at Ng'ila Early Childhood Development (ECD) School have something to smile about as they begin the new school term. Thanks to support from @RowanCollective, they have been issued with brand new uniforms.

Thanks to support @GreatPlainsCons, all of the children in the scholarship programme and their mothers have been trained how to set up and grow kale, spinach and herbs at home in a vertical grow bag which will not create human-elephant conflicts. #TMT

Many of the children in our scholarship programme struggle to get sufficient and nutritious food when they are at home in the school holidays and so this week we have brought these programmes together.

We aim to interlink our programmes as much as possible. Through Maa Enterprise we have been training women how to set up Elephant Friendly Kitchen Gardens at their homes as a micro-enterprise activity.

Maa Beadwork is the trust’s largest income generating programme, training and engaging 579 women in world class artisanal beadwork production. #SmithsonianFolklife #Folklife #Washington

Maa Beadwork Manager, Simaloi, is currently at the @SmithsonianWLS Festival in Washington DC. She is showcasing our beadwork social enterprise which was established to bring alternative livelihoods to Maasai women.