S106 Directors Blog

After a seven day communication blackout in Maasai country, a chartered flight to Nairobi, a 9 our drive to Maua, Kenya and back I am online! It was actually very nice not to communicate for a while, if we needed something from from a Maasai settlement we would send someone an receive word four ours later, a very impressive culture. One that still lives as they did thousands of years ago as gatherers herding cows an goats. No electricity, telephones or internet. You can imagine I have built quite a backlog of videos waiting to be posted… The project we were visiting was funded by the Liliane Foundation. Traditionally the Maasai have a very bad image of the physically and mentally disabled, it is seen as a course, a punishment from the gods and people are often hidden and starved to death. The Liliane Foundation is funding a halfway home for the disabled in Entekerera. The main objectives are to provide a home, education and create awareness in the Maasai community, and so bettering the situation of the disabled in the Maasai comunity. Part of the halfway home is a school were I shot the video above. Below is a sunset shot in this beautiful part of Kenya.