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News
for 2007
Dormitory
and Dinning Hall
Also,
boys' dormitory and dinning hall buildings have been completed
at Maasai High School. The students are already using the facilities.
Click
to
see pictures for this project.
Got
Milk!
Restoring
Hope through the Gift of Cows
Maasai
Association purchased and distributed over 50 cows and 40 goats
to needy families in the Maasai region. Click
to read more about this touching story.
Maasai
High School – Click
to read more about this inspiring story.
Merrueshi
Fresh Water Project –
Click to read more about this story.
Merrueshi
Boarding Facilities – Click
to read more about this story.
Another
latest Maasai story in the news
Maasai
warriors to teach zoo visitors about life in Africa
Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Click
to read this story
News
for 2006
How
Seattle students spend their summer “vacation”
While
their friends are making plans for summer internships and beach
vacations, Students from the Seattle area will be traveling
to Africa this summer to build a highly needed schoolroom for
Maasai children in Kenya. The group of boys and girls will be
living like the Maasai in a remote community with no running
water or electricity, and where lions, giraffes, and elephants
roam freely without property limits. Click
to find out more about this Journey.
News
for 2005
Worse
Drought Hit Maasai Land!
Cattle
are dying and the people are faced with severe food shortage..Kids
are dropping out of schools while parents are struggling to
nurse their young ones at home.
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read this story
Maasai
News Report, 2004
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The
Merrueshi Community Water Project has been completed!
Clean
water changed our life forever. Water is life!î said a Maasai
girl. The needs of 700 people, 5,000 livestock (cattle, goats
and sheep) and wildlife such as wildebeest, zebra, giraffe,
eland, oryx, gazelle, warthog, and baboons, which are in hundreds,
in the Merrueshi area, has been met. Studies and teaching have
become more attainable in the Merrueshi Primary School, as students
and teachers can now collect clean water at the school compound.
Thirst has been defeated completely in the whole community.
Click
for slideshow
Merrueshi
Primary School Project has been completed!
The
Maasai Association has completed the construction of the Merrueshi
Primary School. We added 4 new classrooms, built 6 teachersí
houses, a kindergarten classroom, and a school kitchen.The children
of the Merrueshi community, and from its vicinity, will now
be able to obtain their primary school education without leaving
their community to study in the outside world. Newsletter
News
from 2003 and before...
Education
for indigenous people plays a vital role in protecting wildlife
and habitat. Merrueshi Primary School in southeastern Kenya
serves this role. Click Newsletter
from 2003 to see pictures from
that project.
Maasai
Art by Maasai
Maasai
Art show now hosted at the Seattle Art Museum in Washington.
The show is the first of its kind collected and presented by
the Maasai people. Click
to read about Maasai Art show
Kakuta's
Graduation from Warriorhood!
Every
Maasai man undergoes various rites of passage that mark his
changes of status in society, moving from one level to the next.
This year Kakuta graduated from being a warrior and became a
junior elder. After 15 years Kakuta can now eat meat prepared
by his mother. Kakuta's long ochre-stained-hair was shaved by
his mother. A group of warriors from his age group were among
the 200 people attended the ceremony. Read
more about this fascinating story
