Help the Masai people in kenya

UPDATE: thank you everyone!!! The response has been overwhelming to this cause. We have managed to fund the three projects and now can also do a fourth!!! You are all amazing. For now, we have the funding. And thank everyone so much for your generosity and support. Any donations sent after 20 jan will be sent to a partner im working with on the ground but wont be overseen by me. Thanks everyone you have truly changed lives here! Hi guys! Im currently working on site in MASAILAND in south Kenya. We have many projects going on at the moment and 2 weeks left to fund as much as we can ! we are currently building a self sustaining crop farm to feed several of the orphinages in this community . this is just one example of what we need funding for! It is all about sustainability and improving the basic necessities for these people here. Please take a read! Bit about the PROJECT:   Many Maasai are left with few economic opportunities and are forced to migrate to urban areas for survival, leaving their communities with less human resources and infusing the Maasai culture with other traditions and ideas, which alters the original culture.Masai people are pastoralists and move from one place to another looking for food for  their livestock.Men and their boys move to different places to look for food for their livestock since masailand area is very dry and so they don’t do farming.Women and girls are left at home mostly to guard the homes and take care of babies.Masai people rarely go to school.They live in houses/manyattas made of cow dug or mud .Maasai community circumcise their girls and there is early marriages to girls.Maasai people are poor and don’t value education due to movements. These projects are however not intended to give modern life to Masai, who still are living a nomadic life tending their cattle, but on the contrary help save their own culture and lifestyle.  Lately, the Masai people have started to migrate in urban places for work and survival. To avoid this, development must come to their land, schools and hospitals must be built and their culture must be promoted to attract tourists, so the Masai can benefit from revenue generated from it.  Bit about the WORK: - Working with the Maasai people to preserve and document their traditions - agriculture and conservation strategies (sustainability) - helping with arts skills (bead making is their main source of income) -  water sanitation  - womens' empowerment and women and children's education -  helping work on the land  - building houses, schools, services - creating social experiences and activities within the community  - roads, infranstructure Where does the MONEY go: here are the examples of things going on for projects in masailand: Help masai people buy materials [beads] to make jewelry by fundraising to support them before you arrive in the project,or while you are here,or when you finish your volunteer program. -Help them buy food and also get water for domestic use and also for their livestock.Volunteer can set up a fundraiser to build a Dam or community toilets. -planting trees -Fundraise to buy text books for children,Medicals to provide free treatments in masailand since there are a lot of diseases during rain seasons like –Diarrhea,malaria,and amoeba and other water borne diseases. - Construction of women's shelter where young women can flee to when they leave home to avoid a young and prearranged marriage.  Here is the website of a school created through this program: http://www.agapeacademykenya.com Bit about me: I am a University student studying a double major in Bachelor of Arts (Sustainable Development) and Bachelor of Science (Environmental Management and Sustainability). From new years eve I will be starting an internship for Community Development (for about 1 month) in Kenya with the Masai Tribes through the RDCP Internship Program.  Speaking with my Teacher we have decided it will be a great way to bring the new year in with some fundraising for this local tribe before embarking on my journey so that we can complete extra work! Please contact me for any further information you may want or, if required, the contact in Kenya. Thank you everyone!