Our Sustainability Path

“Sustainable development is the pathway to sustainability”

Breaking the Poverty Cycle

In order to achieve our vision of breaking the poverty cycle, we have established a model based around our care and sustainability principles:

Care – It’s all about the girls. Orphaned and abused girls need an encouraging family environment to flourish. That’s why we’re creating a series of family homes and providing holistic care to each girl to ensure they have every chance to become independent and the leaders of tomorrow.

Sustainability – Sustainability is critical to see long term change. That’s why all of our projects have a focus around social, environmental, and financial sustainability.

Sustainable projects have been in our DNA from the beginning. We have implemented sustainable projects to teach eco-farming and moden agriculture methods to our girls. We have implemented other sustainable projects with zero-grazing dairy cows, rabbits, pigs, chickens, and gardens which all reduce our food costs and provide healthy, nutritious food for all our girls and staff.

Learn more about our relocation and ecoVillage plan

Education is a cornerstone of our work at the rescue center. Our mission is to rescue the most at-risk girls – victims of abuse, poverty and starvation – and give them a foundation for a new life.

We believe that education is a way to break this cycle of abuse and poverty. That’s why we are forming alliances with local schools and universities to provide a high quality education to disadvantaged Maasai girls.

We will provide every girl the academic resources needed to pass the National Standard tests, assistance to girls who have never attended school, life skills training, and upskilling opportunities for our staff.

We have two local, female social workers to evaluate all the girls, and to counsel the girls on life skills, FGM, and sex education.

Sustainable ecoFarming and live stock (dairy cows, pigs, rabbits, layer and broiler chickens) are instrumental in MGRC’s mission, child nutrition and development, food security and fighting poverty.

EcoFarming combines modern science and innovation with respect for nature and biodiversity. It ensures healthy farming and healthy food. It promotes diversity in crops (fruits and vegetables), instead of monocultures like corn and soy, which is essential for nature. It protects the soil, the water and the climate. Eco-Farming does not contaminate the environment with chemical inputs or use genetically engineered crops.

Our vision of sustainability and food security is one in which food is grown with health and safety first.

The MGRC ecoLodges will be used as part of a new social enterprise operated by MGRC, that provides short stay accommodation for visiting volunteers, family stays and medium term professional placements for teachers and nurses.

The funds generated by the ecoLodges will provide an ongoing income stream for the MGRC education program, allowing the girls to attend school annually.

The proposed ecoLodges are one of a series of social enterprises to help sustain our operational costs associated with caring for 100 Maasai girls.

The eco-Village lodges will provide local, hospitality based employment and introduce a new ‘impact tourism’ industry to the region.