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Making a Difference with Maasai Girls & Local Communities

The experience

This project rescues Maasai girls from forced early marriages and female genital mutilation FGM, giving our local Maasai indigenous communities clean and safe drinking water, widows care like preparing gardens for them for food security, we do promote their Maasai jewelry project by selling them abroad & other programs that why volunteers should choose to stay with us. We have 54 girls in our safehouse { rescue center }

What you offer

18 hours of help per week

Gardening: Help grow plants and cultivate gardens

Cleaning: Help clean the kitchen, bedrooms, bathrooms and common areas.

Social Work: Help with volunteer work in local projects and communities.

Teaching Sports: Teaching or assisting the host, guests, or local communities in practicing sports or physical activities.

What you get

2 days off per week

Private Room: You will have a bed in a private room. In other words, a room just for you.

Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.

Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.

Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.

Discounts on Tours: Get discounts for tours and excursions around town.

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

Free Hiking Tours: We’ll take you on excursions and hikes around town. For free!

Free Events: Get free entrance for the best events in town.

Pick Up: We will pick you up when you arrive, and take you to our property.

Language lessons: Take free language classes at our place.

Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.

Basic Internet Access: Basic speed internet for you to work remotely

Requirements

Intermediate English or Beginner English

Between 18 and 80 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

Volunteers support local schools within Maasai indigenous villages and assist at our rescue center to support the girls. They help teach simple subjects such as math, English, science, geography, history, arts, drawing, and sports. They may also help with light daily tasks at our homes, according to what they feel comfortable doing.

Activities & Shift

Volunteers stay within a Maasai community, where people keep animals such as cattle, goats, sheep, and donkeys, and grow crops like maize, beans, potatoes, and others. Local food includes ugali, sukuma, chapati, potatoes, rice, meat, and other dishes that volunteers usually enjoy. In town, it is possible to find anything else that is needed.

Volunteers can take part in many activities depending on their interests. They may teach pupils various subjects such as English, Mathematics, Social Studies, Religious Education, Science, and more, usually focusing on one or two subjects they enjoy most. Volunteers are also free to coordinate sports and arts activities at the end of the day.

Maasai Morans share their culture by performing traditional dances and telling legends and stories. Many volunteers also choose to tutor some students during their stay.

Volunteers benefit from rich cultural exchange: taking photos with Morans, receiving Maasai jewelry as gifts (and optionally buying more to sell back home), writing notes to share in their countries, visiting Maasai manyattas, witnessing Moran graduation ceremonies, and attending traditional Maasai weddings.

Rules

Volunteers are advised not to walk alone at night without assistance from the host and not to visit pubs without being accompanied by the host. If a volunteer wishes to help any family in the village or buy jewelry, they should first consult the host family. When visiting the nearby national park, volunteers are advised to use official tourist routes only.