in Maasai
In the United States we grapple with ideas of essential and non-essential activities in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. These distinctions vary worldwide based on local conditions. Most importantly, the present and the future have to be considered simultaneously, and that is a challenge. As we confront the current…
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A message from Bob Lange: Each day, cases of Covid- 19 are confirmed in Sub-Saharan Africa. We have numerous concerns, but we are not trying to predict how the pandemic will be expressed and experienced in that part of the world. Kisioki, Mesha, and I, together with our experienced and…
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in Maasai
Bringing stoves to the Ngorongoro Highlands is a new action for the conservation authorities. The Ngorongoro Crater is one of Tanzania’s most renowned wildlife conservation area. The agencies involved in conservation and wildlife support have come to realize that it’s crucial to also provide life-improving resources for the people living…
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in Maasai
Sometimes the people need more than a stove and a single light. Hyenas attacked Nangai’s goat corral and killed four goats in the village of Esilalei. Nangai had seen a grid providing light for all the houses and the corrals at his friend Lomnyak’s boma. He surmised that a greater…
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The women of the Maasai Stoves & Solar Project are deeply committed. They love the work and the feelings of new power and freedom that comes from their participation. To determine and achieve their own goals as Maasai women, they formed a new group last spring. Called the Maasai Pastoralist…
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New stoves in new villages Brimming with energy as the area’s newly-trained stove experts, thirty women of Mbuyuni and Meserani villages are installing stoves.Their efforts keep our manufacturing staff busy fabricating fireboxes and delivering bricks and building materials. Our new stove model will soon be in 255 Maasai homes in…
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Saturday will be the big flour-grinding day at the second mill of our Project. It will be in Emairete, a village of Moduli Juu, well located at the site of the big Saturday Maasai market up there. Focusing on organizing and empowering women, the Maasai Stoves & Solar Project has…
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