Maasai Culture

Challenges are what make life interesting

May 20, 2022 Journal Entries, ecoFarm, ecoVillage, Growth and Reflection, Maasai Culture

I am thrilled to share with you that the security wall is complete! Thank you to everyone who generously contributed to this crucial first step towards completing the ecoVillage....

Education is key at Maasai Girls Rescue Center

April 24, 2022 Journal Entries, ecoVillage, Education, Education and Sustainability, Maasai Culture

Rainy season has begun in Tanzania, and we are already seeing new growth on the fruit trees we planted last fall. The girls are also growing and changing on what seems like a daily basis....

Social sustainability starts with well-being

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

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. ...

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....

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....

Get back to where you once belonged

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

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…...

Maasai Culture

Challenges are what make life interesting

Education is key at Maasai Girls Rescue Center

Social sustainability starts with well-being

Stitching our way toward economic sustainability

A Grassroots Alternative to Failed African Aid

Moving beyond survival: Namelock’s story

Kindness, Life, Hope

Why support MGRC’s ecovillage?

Africa captured my heart

Get back to where you once belonged

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