MED uses donated funds to support the following programs that enhance the Maasai Community:
Scholarship Programs
MED sponsored girs from Ole Tipis Secondary School- Narok
MED working in collaboration with Individual sponsors, The United States Agency for International Development, (USAID) One Here One There, a non profit 501 C ( 3), BNP Paribas, The Maasai Foundation of America, INC., and numerous other unanimous donors, sponsors over 800 Maasai students a year to attend primary, secondary and tertiary level of education. The program targets Maasai children, mostly girls who for various reasons lack the resources and opportunity to pursue their education. The program works toward increasing the retention level of Maasai children in schools.
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HIV-AIDS Program
MED addresses the issue of HIV by running educational programs at its community center in Narok, at local schools, and through outreach programs that target isolated Maasai communities. Workshops and educational programs focus on working with community members, leaders, and students. These workshops teach the community about the basic facts of HIV/AIDS, including what the disease is and how it can be contracted as well as how to prevent the spread of the disease.
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Girls Mentoring Program
Students participating in a team bulding activity during a leadership training camp at MED
MED’s mentoring program is designed to provide Maasai girls with support, career counseling as well as female role models. MED recruits successful, educated African women to come and spend time with Maasai girls. Lawyers, civic leaders, and business leaders participated in the mentoring program. On average, mentors commit to 15 hr/wk for 52 weeks. Mentoring activities include tutoring, counseling services, internet based peer-to-peer mentoring workshops, career exploration, and ethics discussions that promote positive self-development and provide positive female role models. Through the mentoring program MED sponsors mentoring camps, and social activities to bring all the mentors and the students they help together for a period of one week.
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The goal of this program is to increase awareness of the dangers associated with FGM, introduce alternatives to FGM, or female circumcision, and promote women’s rights among the Maasai people of Kenya. Currently, MED receives about twenty requests each month to rescue girls from FGM. Unfortunately, due to a lack of funds, MED is only able to respond to one or two of these requests. Although, MED has been successful in rescuing young Maasai girls from FGM, the program has its limitation, which can only be overcome though education, women empowerment and intense community mobilization. Get more info on this program... >>DONATE TO THIS PROGRAM
The MED-Internet Program
Students from Enoomatasiani Secondary school, Narok, Kenya, working on their alpha smarts donated by MED
This program is designed to provide wireless high speed internet to 15 schools within line of site from the MED Community Center in Narok, Kenya. Cisco System International provided MED with an equipment grant of half a million dollars to establish a wireless network within Narok, which will bridge the digital divide by providing internet access to Maasai children to enable them communicate with the rest of the world. The program will provide free internet access to local schools as well as network all schools in Narok, Kenya.
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