The Esiloya Masai community is made up of many tiny villages in a remote part of the Kajiado district of the Masai Mara. Long term droughts over the last 10 years have caused severe problems for the families in this region.
We have been supporting a wonderful project partnering with the local families and government, providing school buildings, education for school age children and and water for the wider community. Providing nutritious school meals for the children each school day guarantees most children will attend school. The boys who would normally be tending the animals and the girls who would normally be married off by 12 years are much more likely able to continue their education.
The first ever secondary school in the area, providing for 350 children between 14-18 years of age has been completed with Global Angels funding. The new water well providing for 6,000 in the wider catchment area is almost completed. Education gives a community and individuals so much more choice in how they live and a chance for a more sustainable way of life.
This project is outstanding in it’s respect of the local community and empowering families and children. We would love to encourage the families in this village by sponsoring their children in school and helping through the poverty that comes with long term drought.
The Kamakwie is a very impoverished area and the children desperately needed a school. By building their own school, there was no longer any need for outside school fees for the orphaned children and the quality of education could be improved. By inviting the local children to attend alongside them, income was generated to help sustain the project, with families who can afford it paying fees.
By providing solar panels, the school now has electricity, allowing the use of computers and creating even greater opportunities for education. We gave the funds, and volunteers built the buildings.
One of the most exciting successes of this project is that the primary and secondary school for the street kids and orphans in the project has become number 22 in the Kenyan league tables with students taking highest levels in the nation right across the arts, sports and academic subjects. The sports team are representing East Africa. Many students from the program have been sponsored and qualified in universities in Kenya and around the world in medical, educational, agricultural and sustainability fields.
Students are also offered apprenticeships in building, agriculture, mechanics, hairdressing, tailoring and organic farming. The builders get their training building new homes for the street kids and orphans. So far Global Angels has provided funds for three homes to be built for over 100 children to live in. The organic farming apprentices gain EU qualifications while growing the french beans in the green houses, the rich variety of vegetables and fruit supplying the 1,000 strong community with food and also help reforest Kenya with native trees specially adapted to the climate.
In the photo above, Daniel and Rohan interview a young man who built the stairway they are sitting on. Once a street child himself, he was educated in the project and is now teaching apprentices.
In the gallery below you will see some of the builders at work, the organic gardens, the tailor workshop.
Students we spoke with are longing to train to become doctors and teachers to give back to the poor in rural Kenya. Others had qualified and needed a small loan to buy basic electrical or building equipment so they could start their micro-enterprise in the city. Each of them were just waiting to find a sponsor.
Street kids and orphans don’t have parents or a government to provide their education. We are their chance.
Please Step Up and provide a scholarship for these young people to gain their qualifications or a small micro-loan to help them into their first small business.
The Esiloya Masai community is made up of many tiny villages in a remote part of the Kajiado district of the Masai Mara. Long term droughts over the last 10 years have caused severe problems for the families in this region.
