Community and Culture Stories

Inaugural Maasai Girls Rescue Center Raleigh Hub

May 3, 2022 Community and Culture, ecoVillage, Volunteering

Nearly 40 people came together April 26th for the inaugural Maasai Girls Rescue Center Raleigh Hub....

Stitching our way toward economic sustainability

February 6, 2022 Sustainability, Community and Culture, ecoVillage, Education, Maasai Culture, Volunteering

Sayuni came to Maasai Girls Rescue Center three years ago when she was 10. Her mother brought her, saying she could no longer support her child. Then the mother left and hasn’t been back. ...

First Annual Community Thanks Celebration

December 29, 2021 MGRC Outreach, Community and Culture, ecoVillage, Journal Entries

On December 18, Maasai Girls Rescue Center hosted our first annual Community Thanks celebration. Over 200 people gathered on the land that will become our ecoVillage....

children gathered in front of bomas at a local village in tanzania

A Grassroots Alternative to Failed African Aid

December 11, 2021 ecoVillage, Community and Culture, ecoFarm, Maasai Culture, Sustainability

Generous people around the world (with the US being the largest donor) provide billions in aid to countries and causes in Sub-Saharan Africa....

Giving and receiving: the importance of community

November 12, 2021 MGRC Outreach, Community and Culture, Education, Sustainability

A crucial part of our work at MGRC is connecting with our local community. Since our move to Karatu earlier this year, we have been building relationships with community members and government officials....

Moving beyond survival: Namelock’s story

November 10, 2021 Community and Culture, Education, Maasai Culture

In 2014, before MGRC was founded, the village chief of where I was living asked me to help a girl with skeletal fluorosis, a condition that caused deformation of her legs....

Kindness, Life, Hope

November 1, 2021 Journal Entries, Community and Culture, ecoFarm, ecoVillage, Maasai Culture

It’s been a few weeks since I returned from the states and wrote a journal entry. Karatu continues to be good to MGRC....

Why support MGRC’s ecovillage?

September 1, 2021 ecoVillage, Community and Culture, Maasai Culture, Sustainability

The Maasai Girls Rescue Center’s ecoVillage is founded on the premise that the only lasting way to help people is to teach them how to help themselves....

Africa captured my heart

July 7, 2021 Guest Posts, Community and Culture, Maasai Culture, Volunteering

In the fall of 2019 Africa captured my heart. My Dad and I were fortunate enough to travel to Rwanda, Tanzania and Kenya, a trip we had been dreaming of for more than a decade....