Guest Posts Archives | Maasai Girls Rescue Center

Maasai girls ready for MGRC's Christmas Celebration

The Heart of Rescue

July 21, 2024 Community and Culture, Guest Posts, Maasai Girls, Volunteering

Guest post written by Christy Bowersox Today a photo stopped me in my tracks. In my work with MGRC, I look at hundreds of photos. Most depict happy children enjoying their lives at the center. But there was something about this photo that stood out to me. This photo was…...

Our Incredible Experience at MGRC

December 1, 2023 Community and Culture, ecoVillage, Guest Posts, Maasai Girls

Guest post by: Judy and Dave Clouse Recently, we had the incredible opportunity to visit Maasai Girls Rescue Center in Tanzania, an organization we have been supporting for over four years. We’re originally from Wisconsin but retired to Arizona where one of our passions is actively volunteering at our church.…...

Life-changing trip reveals sustainable practices creating a brighter future

November 17, 2023 ecoVillage, Growth and Reflection, Guest Posts

Guest post by: Greg Scheu I just returned from a life-changing trip to Tanzania. This wasn’t my first trip to Africa. I had visited in past years, both with my previous multi-national employer, and with the U.S. Federal Government on U.S. to Africa trade missions. I had seen the beauty…...

Maasai Girls Rescue Center needs a few good sponsors. Are you one of them?

August 4, 2023 Growth and Reflection, Guest Posts, Maasai Girls

A big part of the girls’ lives at MGRC is their sponsors. It means so much to know that someone on the other side of the world loves and cares about them....

group shot of the mgrc girls and volunteers

From Poverty and Despair to Hope and Independance

December 23, 2022 Community and Culture, Guest Posts, Volunteering

One of our volunteers and long-time supporters, Cammy West, has just returned from the her 10th trip to Africa, and her 3rd visit to the Center in Tanzania. When Cammy isn't working at her day job as a sales representative in the golf industry, she is focused on volunteering and…...

Have Tractor Will Travel

December 6, 2022 Community and Culture, ecoVillage, Guest Posts, Volunteering

One of my earliest memories of Christmas was the year my big sister and I received a pedal tractor. In my mind, receiving a pedal tractor was THE best gift ever! It was a shiny red and it looked just like my Dad’s Farmall....

Hunting for Christmas

December 5, 2022 Community and Culture, Guest Posts, Volunteering

When I think about Christmas I have so many wonderful family memories. We always hosted a Christmas party for our extended family. And the highlight of that party was when Santa would visit....

young girl sitting on a couch holding her baby sister on her lap

Baby or bike?

November 22, 2022 Community and Culture, Guest Posts, Volunteering

One of my favorite Christmas memories is the year our second daughter was born…exactly one week before Christmas. Our oldest daughter loved “her” early Christmas gift of a baby sister!...

Catching up with the MGRC girls

September 9, 2022 Community and Culture, ecoVillage, Guest Posts, Maasai Culture

Time is moving quickly in Tanzania, and somehow two months have passed since my last journal entry! But so many great things are happening here that I'm excited to tell you about....

Social sustainability starts with well-being

February 18, 2022 Education and Sustainability, Guest Posts, Maasai Culture, Sustainability, Volunteering

I met Mary and her older sister Momoi in an impoverished area near the Kenyan border, where their grandmother was raising them because their parents were too poor to care for them....

Africa captured my heart

July 7, 2021 Community and Culture, Guest Posts, 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....

Volunteers Help MGRC Girls

June 25, 2021 Community and Culture, Education, Guest Posts, Volunteering

Volunteers help MGRC girls learn new talents, build their self-confidence, and set goals for their future...

Get back to where you once belonged

May 25, 2021 Community and Culture, Guest Posts, Maasai Culture, Volunteering

Guest post by Makayla Henwood Two years ago, I had the life-changing experience of volunteering at the Maasai Girls Rescue Center, which was founded by my grandfather, Rick Morro. Now I get to go back! I graduate this month from Apache Junction High School east of Phoenix, Arizona. Next month I…...

From Aspen to Africa: A time for exploration

May 20, 2021 Community and Culture, Guest Posts, Volunteering

Guest post by Hunter Love After a year and a half of pandemic restrictions, I’m taking a gap year to have the time to tour the top art schools that I have been interested in attending since I was in preschool, and see as much of the world as I can.  I graduate…...

Threads of Hope – Dresses for the Girls at MGRC

February 18, 2021 Community and Culture, Guest Posts, Volunteering

If you regularly check out the MGRC Facebook page and the MGRC website, you’ve undoubtly noticed pictures of the girls wearing colorful dresses. Recently, a photograph of Susan from MGRC was featured on a Facebook post wearing a beautiful dress with an embroidered pocket. The dress was made by Mary, one of the…...

MGRC featured in The Red Book Magazine

April 28, 2020 Community and Culture, Guest Posts, Volunteering

MGRC featured in The Red Book Magazine, March 2020Text by Beverly Medlyn – Photos courtesy Maasai Girls Rescue Center Moved by the Maasai A trip to Tanzania becomes a life-changing experience When Rick Morro retired nine years ago, he envisioned a life of travel, golf and fishing. During his career…...

How volunteering at MGRC impacted my daily life

October 15, 2019 Community and Culture, Guest Posts, Maasai Culture, Volunteering

MGRC’s founder, Rick Morro’s 16 year old granddaughter spent two unforgettable weeks volunteering at MGRC. These are her words on how the experience has changed her life. Now that I am home in Arizona and back to my usual routine of living a blessed life, I cannot stop thinking about…...

Returning from my Trip to the States

September 19, 2019 Growth and Reflection, Guest Posts, Journal Entries, Sustainability, Volunteering

I have been back in Longido, Tanzania for a couple weeks now. During my trip to the States, we received commitment to sponsor 8 more girls. We also raised some funds to cover our short-term care of the unsponsored girls. We still have 13 more sponsorships to cover, and have…...

The most surprising things about my trip to MGRC

June 14, 2019 Community and Culture, Guest Posts, Volunteering

When I first came to Tanzania, Africa for my trip to MGRC, I was expecting most of it to be just like America. After being here for a week, I learned it was nothing like being in America. People in Africa have life so much harder than me or anyone I…...