Maasai Education Center
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM – LED BY THE MAASAI FOR THE MAASAI
MCV is Building a Maasai Education Center
MCV is excited to announce that we have started to construct a Maasai Education Center in Amboseli Kenya. It is a community center where Maasai children learn and play; cultural knowledge meets modern education; Maasai traditions are preserved and artifacts are respectfully displayed; community members gather for civic issues and women gather to make and showcase their beadwork to visitors in the area. This is a community center dedicated to cultural preservation, education, and sustainable development.
The Center is located just 10 miles from the Amboseli National Park entrance, where MCV owns 13-Acres of land for the development of a Maasai Education Center. MCV has allocated 3 acres for the center, and 10-acres of land directly behind the center for planting medicinal, fruit trees, and to grow the food needed to feed the community, school children, orphans in the area.
The Maasai Education Center provides opportunities for the Maasai to share their heritage with visitors, which will include a large percentage of the annual tourists who visit Amboseli National Park. Amboseli is designated as a UNESCO biosphere and remains famous as a premier place in Africa for its intimate wildlife viewings, which include frequent sights of free-ranging elephants, lions, giraffes, wildebeests, zebras, antelope, and over 600 species of birds. Because of the Maasai’s harmonious way of life, the wildlife flourishes in the area attracting approximately 600,000 tourists to enjoy safaris annually.
Give Generously Today to Build Maasai Education Center
Give HOPE today & DONATE to one of MCV’s campaigns listed below to support the Maasai Education Center
Your generous contributions will allow us to build a Maasai Education Center that will develop a new generation of leaders and safeguard Maasai heritage for future generations.
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Updates & Behind the Scenes Photos and Videos of Building the Maasai Education Center
Connecting Youth from USA and Kenya for Climate Action
In April 2023 MCV traveled to Kenya with a passionate team of 21, mostly high school youth to build the first classroom at the Maasai Education Center! We equipped the Center with laptops and other tech tools so our students can work together and become agents for positive change in protecting and preserving their local environment through MCV’s Climate Action Campaign. The center seeks to inspire and educate young people on the importance of protecting the environment through indigenous traditional knowledge, and safeguarding the traditions and cultures of Indigenous communities to nurture an appreciation for the interconnectedness of all living things on Earth – ultimately driving sustainable practices that benefit us both locally and around the world!
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