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1.Female Genital Mutilation(FGM) in the Maasai Community.
FGM has been one of the major Gender Based Issues that we have been highlighting in our community as it has affected many girls who have been pressured by this cultural norm to stop going to school and therefore forced into early childhood marriages.We intend to have a pool of caregivers to the girls that have already undergone the cut.We also want to support and enable counselors in our community to reach out to these girls and provide mental health care to rehabilitate them back to the community and to the schooling systems.
2.The Maasai Culture
The Maasai are a Nilotic ethnic group inhabiting northern, central and southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. They are among the best known local populations internationally due to their residence near the many game parks of the African Great Lakes, and their distinctive customs and dress. The Maasai speak the Maa language. Some have become educated in the official languages of Kenya and Tanzania, Swahili and English. The Maasai population has been reported as numbering 841,622 in Kenya in the 2009 census, compared to 377,089 in the 1989 census.
