Projects
Below is a brief description of Maji Mazuri Center’s current projects. For more detailed information, please visit the individual links.
Maji Mazuri Children’s Home and Emergency Center
At Maji Mazuri Center’s Childrens’ Home, disabled children are rehabilitated and given a chance at a productive life. An assessment test is arranged and based on the results, a long-term plan is prepared. Children are either moved to long term treatment centers or special schools for the physically disabled.The Maji Mazuri Center’s Children’s Home cares for 40 abandoned children, many of whom are physically or mentally handicapped. They receive 24-hour care, rehabilitation, medical services and specialized education. There is a long waiting list of children needing these services in the community. For more information about the Children’s Home and Emergency Shelter, please click here.
Maji Mazuri Center works with young people and children in and around Nairobi. These young people benefit from life skills training and other programs we have. This is an opportunity to develop initiative, leadership and vision for the future. They develop valuable skills, as well as self-respect, co-operation, a deeper insight into themselves and the world in which they are growing. These young people are transforming their own lives and turning to help others in their community. The programs that are run include courses on: Youth and HIV/AIDS, Youth and Careers, Youth and Reproductive Health Issues. To find out more information, please click here.
Mavuno Micro Enterprise Project
The Mavuno Micro Enterprise Project was created to give individuals who had the desire to break free of the bonds of poverty, but lacked the means to do so. It is a cooperative of entrepreneurs, who through a self replenishing fund are able to take small loans and start a business. The group holds meetings and share their business experiences. Each member of the group are able to provide each other with support and act as a sounding board for ideas on how to improve their businesses. As the individuals find success, they pay back their loans and are able to take loans from the fund in higher amounts. In this way, the fund is continuously replenished by its own successes. For more information on this project, click here.
The Headstart Project serves dual purposes of providing children with an beginning education and a self environment in which to stay while their parents are working. It primarily serves those individuals involved with the Micro Enterprise project, who would otherwise be forced to leave their children at home unattended. For more information about the Headstart project, please click here.
Maji Mazuri has acquired 25 acres of farm land. Farming activities have been slow to start, due to a lack of water, but we have drilled a borehole at a cost of $45,000. The farming project is an ambitious one which will include: training in agricultural skills; a demonstration farm; youth camping; a resource center and commercial farming. For more information on this wonderful project, please click here.
The Kiserian School is located near the Kiserian Farm Project. The school serves many of the Masai children in the area, including young girls who to this point had not had the opportunities to better themselves. For more information about the school, please click here.
The Loodariak Maasai Community
Loodariak is a Maasai community some 40 miles south west of Kenya’s capital city, Nairobi. The people are farmers: raising cattle and goats.
Over the last ten years, the community has established a pre-K and elementary school in which not only do the children learn the Kenyan national school curriculum, but they also are taught Maasai culture – the Maa language, traditional songs, dance, and tribal history. The school has been funded in large part by Marshall Memorial United Church of Canada, which is in Ancaster, Ontario, Canada. For more information link here.
The children of Loodariak take a break from classes…..
