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Journal Entry: Catching up with the MGRC girls

September 9, 2022 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....

An entrepreneurial approach transforming African aid

July 2, 2022 ecoFarm, ecoVillage, Maasai Culture, Sustainability

Generous people around the world (with the U.S. being the largest donor) provide billions in aid to countries and causes in Sub-Saharan Africa. Much of that aid fails to effectively address long-term problems, and in many cases creates negative unintended consequences....

Journal Entry: Baby Nosim

June 29, 2022 Journal Entries, Maasai Culture

Recently, I received a call from a local social worker about a mother who had died in childbirth. He asked if we could help because the father was unable to care for the baby....

Momoi (center holding microphone) was able to use her language skills to translate her friends' testimonies at the Community Celebration. She speaks Maa, Swahili and English.

New career center expands options for MGRC girls’ future

June 15, 2022 ecoVillage, Education, Maasai Culture, Sustainability

If you ever wondered how much a life can be transformed with loving intervention by caring strangers, consider the remarkable journey of Momoi....

Challenges are what make life interesting

May 20, 2022 ecoFarm, ecoVillage, Journal Entries, 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 MGRC

April 24, 2022 ecoVillage, Education, Journal Entries, 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 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....

Stitching our way toward economic sustainability

February 6, 2022 ecoVillage, Education, Maasai Culture, Sustainability, 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. ...

A Grassroots Alternative to Failed African Aid

December 11, 2021 ecoFarm, ecoVillage, 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 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....

Maasai Culture

Journal Entry: Catching up with the MGRC girls

An entrepreneurial approach transforming African aid

Journal Entry: Baby Nosim

New career center expands options for MGRC girls’ future

Challenges are what make life interesting

Education is key at MGRC

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

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