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During 2007 M.A.A. intends to build two new classes for the primary school of "Elerai", Oloitokitok District, besides Kilimanjaro.

In that small village children take lessons under the trees, because the small wooden building (currently 2 classes) has been assessed dangerous by the Ministry of Health and it was simply closed. No matter if 350 children remain without any school facility. Our goal is to find the funds that they will allow us to give a new school to those 350 pupils.

The Catholic Mission of Rombo and Maasai parents reported us the following news :

It becomes urgent to offer school facility to 350 children that take lessons in open air under the trees. The "Elerai Primary school" , Oloitokitok district, next to Kilimanjaro needs urgently a school. The Ministry of Health has assessed the old woden building unsuitable for teaching and has simply closed the school. No alternative solution has been offered. So, where they will be hosted 350 young pupils ? Is-it acceptable to leave these children illiterate ?

Build 1-2 classes in a permenant way (construction with stones and ciment) would be a big gift for the children of the Rombo area. Providing primary education is essential to preserve young Maasai girls from early forced marriages, only exit in the life of an illiterate girl.

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July 2006 : « Dormitory and cantina for 50 pupils in Kenya »

Ilntumtum village, Narok district

How you can school Maasai children living at a distance of 3-4 hours by foot from the nearest school ? After hard thinking on the question and taking into account the local conditions (no road, no public transport) we launch the project of building a dormitory near the school. In that way, the pupils can stay 5 days a week in the Ilntumtum village and follow school lessons every day, then go back at their remote homes for the week-end. 

The MAA (Maasai Aid Association) executive committee is very happy to announce that this project has been successfully completed.

The project comprises :

• building a dormitory with a total surface of 200 m2, and a capacity of 50 beds, just besides the primary school of Ilntumtum

• building a kitchen/cantina next to the dormitory (80 m2)

• full equiped dormitory with bedings and bedsheets, pillows etc, and fully equiped kitchen with utencils.

• construction of a water tank with a capacity of 37’000 litres and a collection system (pipes gathering rainfall water from the roofs of the two buildings)

• four toillettes and bathrooms for the 50 children.

The Narok County Council offers food to puplis, during the school year.

We thank heartily the following donors :

• l' Etat de Genève (Service de solidarité internationale)

• Commune de Cologny

• Commune de Lancy

• Commune de Meyrin

• La ville de Genève

• L'Institut Robin des Bois

Dormitory for 50 Maasai pupils

Dormitory inside

Parents have participated with their work along the whole project.

A committee of Maasai mothers keep the keys of the dormitory and takes care of the common wealth.

MAA offers regularly school material to small remote Kenyan schools (books, bloc-notes, colour pencils, school uniforms).

The "Worldwide English" of "Collège de Claparède" (High school) in Geneva has collected money and offered to the primary school of Ilntumtum in 2004 a library with 100 titles in English and Kiswahili.

Fulfilled project on 2003-2004 

thanks to a private donation and the support of "Foundation BNP Paribas Swiss",

in collaboration with MED-Kenya

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