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Maasai issues today

The school building built by OSILIGI
The school building built by OSILIGI

The Maasai organization OSILIGI has been dissolved by the Kenyan administration after activists had demonstrated on one of the big farms in the area in 2003. The fight for land rights has been lost (so far). But one of the schools OSILIGI built is still there – and highly valued by the tribesmen and women.  Continue reading Maasai issues today

The Maasai NGO Osiligi (year 2000 text)

OSILIGI: Hope for Maasai people

Made to measure: elementary school for the Maasai

“We haven’t enough cattle, so my parents can’t send me to school”, says Damaris Timorit, a 10-year-old Maasai boy. It’s a long way to the nearest village school and, moreover: “In the dry season we can’t go to school anyway, because then we’re moving around with our animals looking for grass and water.”  Continue reading The Maasai NGO Osiligi (year 2000 text)