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5.490€

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Development of Olbolet Siena Hills Academy (Masai Mara, Kenya)

Excellence in education is a key lever for economic development. We invite you to contribute to this initiative, which has been successfully tested

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5.490€

Goal

10.000€

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55%

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ASOCIACIÓN MAASAI RETO

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Veronica Pascual

Manuel y Verónica

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Published: 3 Dec 2023

History
About the NGO

In August 2023, in the context of a family trip to Africa, we had the opportunity to learn about the situation of education in the Masai Mara region of Kenya.

In the Masai Mara region, children walk between 8 and 12 kilometres every day to and from school. Along this path, many accidents occur, especially with girls who are assaulted from a very young age. In the schools of the region, the classes have up to 100 students. Under this setting education adapts to the average and many children are left behind. Many girls go uneducated or drop out at an early age, as their families use them as assets to be exchanged in marriages of convenience in exchange for a cow or other animals.

During our family trip, we had the opportunity to meet, through the Maasai Reto association, Lucy, a local entrepreneur who as a child suffered first-hand the deficiencies of the system, but who found a way to create the Olbolet Siena Hills Academy school. We were impressed by the purpose of this private project, which is to offer high standards of teaching quality in small groups (no more than 20 students per class)

It also offers the opportunity to sleep at school to reduce the likelihood of girls being assaulted on journeys.

The Principal of the School, Lucy, and her faculty gave us an excellent impression for their high level of preparation and degree of commitment to develop this initiative that has turned 10 years old, despite all the inconveniences they usually experience: many families cannot pay, elephants and inclement weather devastate the light structure classrooms, the education of families so that they do not abandon their children's education,...

We firmly believe that excellence in education is a key lever of economic development and that is why we invite you to contribute to making this initiative of such a noble cause, proven and successful, improve every day. In this way, we will be helping to consolidate a high-level educational project for the development of the Masai Mara community.

En 2013 Marta empezó un viaje a África que cambiaría su vida. Su amor y su pasión por este precioso continente, su gente y su vida salvaje la han llevado a formar su hogar y su familia en Kenya. Morris, su marido, es de la tribu Kamba pero siempre se ha criado en tierra maasai. Ahora ha llegado el momento que su pasión y la de sus hermanos & familia se unan en un nuevo RETO familiar. Asi nace la Asociación Maasai Reto.

A través de la asociación creamos retos para apoyar a las familias maasai en las zonas rurales de Masai Mara basándones en cuatro pilares principales: educación, Sanidad, Agua y empodaramiento de las Mujeres.

Además, tenemos una última ambiación: entender la gestión de terrenos en tierra maasai y apoyar la conservación de la fauna. Esto se debe a que muchas familias en las zonas rurales viven en zonas contiguas a áreas de conservación de la fauna y la convivencia entre los poblados y los animales y evitar los conflictos que puedan generarse es parte de su forma de vida.

Como véis, somo ambiciosos, pero el apoyo de Marta y Morris estando sobre el terreno, nos ayuda a conocer de primera mano las necesidades, gestionar los recursos y supervisar los proyectos.

También podéis apoyar la Asociación a través de su programa "Amigo RETO".

¿Os animáis a formar parte de nuestros RETOS?

En lengua Maa (la lengua maasai), RETO significa "el que ayuda"....