Help Keep Maasai Girls in School

These Maasai girls, and many others, urgently need your help so they can stay in school. Countless Maasai children in Kenya's Amboseli community lands were sent home this week at the start of the new school term, because their families could not afford to pay school fees. With each passing day, their futures as educated, employed, and empowered tribal women slip away. Instead, these bright young girls with so much potential will most likely be married by the time they are 16.

The Kenyan government established public elementary schools. Attendance is mandatory, but even the $10 per term ($30 a school year) fees are out of reach for so many Maasai. With teacher-student ratio of 1 to 100+, most critical learning begins in Junior Secondary and Secondary (Middle and High School), where "private" schools are the only option. For indigenous families excluded from modern job markets, the Junior Secondary $140 per term ($420 a school year) and Secondary $240 per term ($720 a school year) fees, plus books, supplies and uniforms, are impossible.

As the school year comes to an end in the US, the school term has just begun in Kenya. Through a partnership with Maasai community Chiefs and Chairwomen, every penny of your donations will go directly towards school fees for the most at risk children, so they can immediately get back in school where they belong.

Please consider donating what you can to sponsor a child, family or village. Your generosity can change more lives than you will ever know.