Maasai Development Incorporated

Maasai Development Board Member Kirsten Hotchkiss is on the ride of a lifetime to benefit our Maasai friends! She and her husband are bicycling across the US - From the Pacific to the Atlantic. And, she is asking for pledges to help with our programs in Kenya! Take a look at her daily updated blog. Please pledge if you can! 2900 miles is a huge attempt! GO KIRSTEN!!!

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Hello, Friends of the Maasai! Please see the new video we produced and posted on our website! It shows the Olmaroroi Centre of Excellence where 40 Young Maasai Ladies live and study as a safe have from homelessness or abuse that they had been in previously. It is a great relief for them to have a home where they can be safe and secure! Please donate if you can help. Funds from the US are of course, becoming more difficult and costs are rising!
https://maasai-development.com/

Maasai-development We work to support the Maasia people and help them preserve their way of life and share their culture.

We are so pleased to announce that the “Olmaroroi Centre of Excellence”, a home to Young Maasai Ladies who have been separated from their family for a variety of reason or have been orphaned. Thank you so much to all who contributed!! Now, we need to build financial support for continuing the Centre. If you are able, please donate either as a monthly commitment through your bank or in a one-time donation through Venmo or GoFundMe as seen in these links! We need to make sure that these Young Ladies have a secure future!
https://account.venmo.com/u/Maasai-Development
https://www.gofundme.com/f/uhwgz-building-brighter-futures

Chief Joseph arrived back to Kenya after a speaking tour in the US to find members of his community greeting him at the Nairobi Airport!

Our Kenyan friends are having a very difficult time with floods after many years of record drought. You can see in this video the roads being swept away and collapsing. Many hundreds are dead. A cyclone is setting up to hit the East Coast of Kenya or Tanzania tomorrow. If it hits Kenya, it will be the first in history. Roads are impassible, homes and families have been swept away. No one can move beyond their neighborhoods, so food is in short supply. If you are able to help with funds, to be used for emergency food supplies, medical assistance and rebuilding when this is over, please go to the page shown in the comments and donate. More info to come as it develops. Please google "Kenya floods" to see more.

Friends of the Maasai!
Our Maasai friends will be coming to the East Coast in the next few weeks. Please see the schedule noted below. If you are in the area, please come in and see them or send friends and family to meet them! They will be in: Connecticut, Virginia and Maryland!
Saturday March 23
8am to Noon
St Stephen’s Farmer’s Market - St Stephen’s Episcopal Church
6000 Grove Avenue
Richmond, VA
One on One discussion with Maasai and Jewelry Sales

Tuesday, March 26
Elegba
101 E Broad Street
Richmond Virginia, 23219
Speaking and Jewelry Sales

Saturday March 30
4 – 6pm
Presentation by Chief Joseph and Team!
Flavours of Life, 86 Bank St, New London, CT 06320

Saturday April 6
2 – 4pm
South Norwalk Branch Library – Community Room
10 Washington Street
Norwalk, CT 06854
One on One Meeting with Maasai and Jewelry Sale Saturday April 13
8am to 10:30 am

Jewelry Sale
Dunkin Donuts
5075 Solomons Island Road
Lothian, MD 20711

Delivery of material for next phase of the Centre for Excellence - Rescue Center!

Friends of the Maasai!
It is a New Year and we have GREAT News. A Foundation called "Flourish, A Family Foundation" based in St Louis, Missouri has very kindly donated $12,000 to finish the construction of our “Olmarori Centre for Excellence” – A Rescue Center for Young Maasai Ladies. This is a wonderful step forward to provide a new life for up to 60 Young Ladies at a time who will reside at our Centre. These Young Ladies might be orphaned. They might have been in an abusive marriage or forced into an early marriage and run away. Each Young Lady has a unique story.
But of course, this is only the beginning for the “Centre for Excellence”. It is one thing to build the structure. It is entirely another thing to provide ongoing support. Our estimates are that it will cost $1000 per month to feed the Young Ladies, provide clothes, electricity, security, and other support. Are you able to help with this continued support through either a one-time donation or having an automatic monthly donation through the myriad of methods available for this? Individuals can make automatic recurring payments through their online checking or brokerage accounts.
As always, thank you so much for your support and concern for our Maasai Friends.