Dear Debra, In the Maasai community, the people hear the call for collaboration loud and clear. Together, we take a creative, flexible approach to making life better. If homes are healthier with stoves and solar, why not make the water safer too? If herders can adapt to diminishing rainfall, why
How a daring Maasai leader and an American physics professor organize to improve life in rural Africa Meet Kisioki Moitiko, ICSEE project manager and Dr. Robert Lange, ICSEE founder. Come to talks in the Boston area, San Francisco/Stanford, San Diego, Laguna Nigel, Annapolis/DC, and New York City, with details to
I am in the States for two weeks in August to be with family, returning to Arusha later in the month. In mid-October of 2024 Kisioki and I will be coming to the various cities in the state to speak about the ICSEE. Our tentative schedule is posted below. If
The work Mesha is doing is intensifying. She’s organizing women into groups for resource sharing and business development in collaboration with the Global Fund for Widows and with dedicated ICSEE funds. Basic stove and solar work will get a boost from a new collaboration with our friends, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency in
Can a rain-based, livestock-based economy survive when changing climate means the traditional livestock practices won’t work anymore? Indigenous communities are held in high regard for their understanding of the nature in which they live they. However, when nature changes, what is to be done? We must not hesitate to share
As the need for organizing women for power and independence intensifies, The Global Fund for Widows (GFW) and ICSEE Tanzania have created a new collaboration to make even greater efforts possible. Over the years, together with the GFW, we organized 19 groups of 25 widows in Maasai villages. Later on,
Rain-based economies are in a very difficult position. To have a stable economy focused on livestock or agriculture, there must be weather stability, including reliable rainfall. As a result of global warming, there is persistent bad weather in many places, including the Maasai lands. Within the Maasai communities, we are
Your donations go way beyond helping with day-to-day Project costs. You are supporting something much stronger. The People now grasp that life can truly be better–and that they are the key actors. It is these realizations that multiply your gifts over and over. The awakened energy of the People has
Here is a snapshot of what International Development looks like in the here and now for the International Collaborative. Perhaps in the future, it will evolve to become quite different, but in the present, people are working together and creatively adapting to make life better. And surprising opportunities emerge. We
New Education Program for Cypress Hill A significant social need There are many young people who need to repeat parts of the national exams to get the scores up to what they need to carry on with their life plans. They can retake the exams, but first need help to
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