NEWS (updated April-12-2013)   Here you will find current NEWS about our organization and our ongoing projects... We support self aid projects in Maasai area. "Google Maps"- you will find here... If you wish to get detailed information choose a topic from the menu on the left hand side. However, for the moment detailed information on several topics are only available in German. You have any questions or new ideas? In any case you are invited to contact us via email:

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They kick off Maasai for hunting lions

Friends informed us about this important link:

- AVAAZ Stan dwith the Maasai

We are still looking for sponsorships for some schoolgirls in Maasai area

Recently 42 schoolgirls are being supported by a sponsorship (January 2013) and on top of this some more Maasai girls also receive support for school uniforms and books. However, there are still 6 more schoolgirls on our waiting list which hope to get support by a sponsorship...
 

School buildings in Nyorrit almost completed

Fortunately, the funds to complete the school building in Nyorrit which were expected from the government of the Simanjiro- district have already been paid in January 2013. Thus, the planned roofs of the classrooms could be built according to the contract and the two much-needed classrooms will be available soon at this primary school in the Maasai area...
 

Waste collection campaign by pupils in Loiborsoit

As a thank you for the installed water tanks and newly received teaching materials the children and teachers of primary school have performed a waste collection campaign in Loiborsoit. Because of the lack of professional waste disposal facilities the collected waste like plastic bottles and bags as well as carton was disposed in a covered dump that was dug for this purpose...
 

Roger's cattle herd is growing

Some donations in January 2013 allowed us to buy 5 additional young cattle for Roger's cow project. Maasai, who have lost their last livestock because of drought or disease, can get a cow from Roger's cattle herd which is funded by donations. The first two new born calves of this cow go back to the herd and are in turn given to other needy Maasai...
 

Maasai children are very happy to received new textbooks

The primary school in Loiborsoit has received another generous donation through friends, which visited our ongoing projects in Maasai area last year. With the received money it was possible to order a major significant volume of new books and teaching material for the classrooms...
 

Original hand-carved wooden spoons for our Maasai Shop

The naturally dead trees (acacias), which sometimes overturned also by ancient steppe elephants are used by the Maasai people not only as firewood. Since generations, they use this hard dry wood to make simple tools such as spoons. Each of these spoons made by Alalem (knife) varies according to the color and texture of the used wood. Even in a modern European cuisine this original Maasai spoon will find a good use and are now recently also in our Maasai Shop in Switzerland...
 

Drinking water supply for our small guest house and the Sing'isi secondary school in Tengeru

For supplying our little Guesthouse in Tengeru with drinking water we had to dig and install an almost 500m long pipeline to the nearest water source. At the same time we took the opportunity to also connect the Sing'isi secondary school in Tengeru and the families in the neighborhood of our Guest House to this pipeline, which was well appreciated...
 

Meeting with village government – Planning the installation of solar water pumps in Loiborsoit

Together with friends from our Swedish partner organization "SSL" we met with members of the village authority in order to discuss the next steps of the proposed water project in Loiborsoit. Along with "TOP to TOP" we want to support the replacement of the fuel driven generator with a solar powered system for the operation of the local water pump...
 

Visit of our partner organization "SSL" from Sweden

It is always a special pleasure when members of our partner organization "SSL" from Sweden are visiting us. Together we visited the recently constructed school building in Nyorrit, and other ongoing projects in the Maasai-area...
 

Our Maasai godchildren celebrated with us to the end of their school year

We celebrated the end of the school year together with our sponsored girls from Maasailand. At the "enkaina-e-retoto" house in Loiborsoit we organized a party for the children and their mothers. Together with a delicious local meal fresh Oloisuki tea was served and some soda beverages were offered, which of course is a very rare pleasure for the kids...
 

Water project at the school Loiborsoit is a success - children plant trees in the Maasai area

Early November, the first big quantities of rainwater could be collected in the recently installed water tanks at the school in Loiborsoit. Finally, the school has enough own drinking water available for the operation of the school kitchen. Much to the delight of the school children who in addition took the opportunity to start planting trees and water them...
 

Friends from Switzerland visiting us in Maasailand

Again in this year, our Maasai friends in Loiborsoit were happy about numerous visitors from Switzerland, Europe and elsewhere. So their circle of friends is growing steadily. Such visits are always a perfect opportunity not only to make new friends but also to become a member of "enkaina-e-retoto". With a stay in Loiborsoit everybody can get an impression of our current projects in the Maasai area...
 

An ideal Christmas gift for Friends of Africa: The new Maasai picture book

Still looking for a meaningful Christmas gift?
Just in time for Christmas our new picture book "Maasai - Impressions" has been published.
In a Christmas campaign we sell this photo book (Ifolor deluxe A4, 96 pages) for CHF 95 - with exclusive pictures of the Maasai culture in Tanzania.
In addition the new 2013 photo calendar of enkaina-e-retoto, as well as various new postcard series with subjects from the Maasai can now be ordered online here at our Maasai shop. You will find the current order list (in German) with all items from our Maasai shop here as a PDF file.
The net profit from the Christmas campaign will be used for our help projects in the Masai area...
 

Jacqui from Australia visited our projects in the Maasai area

Jacqui from Australia visited during her stay in East Africa our ongoing projects in the Maasai area. In collaboration with "TOP to TOP" and with the support of the foundation myclimate Switzerland Jacqui got an idea about the different waterprojects in Maasai area and also about the Oloisuki project of Maasai women from Loiborsoit in detail. Jacqui wants to make these projects becoming more popular here with a short film documentary (on YouToube)...
 

Guesthouse in Tengeru close to Arusha soon ready for moving in

Thanks to help of many African friends the works of our small two-story guesthouse are progressing well. Soon a couple of rooms on the idyllic property in Tengeru are ready for hosting our first guests...
 

Pictures of Kalanga and exhibition in Zurich

The artist and photographer Pablo Fernandez Macho has published some pictures of Kalanga on his website (www.pablofmacho.com)  The sale of pictures in his project "Balloon4smile" supports our ongoing projects in the Maasai area...
 

Bye bye Kalanga

After his three month stay in Europe Kalanga is back in Tanzania. We all enjoyed to show him our country and culture. The visit of Kalanga was the perfect opportunity to go ahead with our ongoing projects in the Maasai area and to meet friends and project partners here in Europe...
 

First "water tanks for the school of Loiborsoit" installed

In cooperation with "TOP to TOP" the first 5.000-litre tanks have been installed at the primary school of Loiborsoit. Now we are waiting for the next rain season in order that these water tanks can be filled with rain water that is being collected from the roofs of the buildings and can be used for washing, cooking in the school kitchen and other purposes...
 

Successful graduation of English course

Last week five young Maasai worriors from Loiborsoit finished their 3 months English course in Arusha successfuly. They are looking forward to use their new knowledge soon when they can practice English conversation with their guests and friends from all over the world...
 

AIDS-education program in Maasai Area

“Maasai AIDS Network” asked  „enkaina-e-retoto“ to support their education program regarding HIV in the Maasai area.
The first information event will be in Arusha on August-28-2012. For further events we will provide our infrastructure in Loiborsoit. More information are available here (in Englisch/Kiswahili) or direct by maped_2007@yahoo.com ...

Important information related to the Oloisuki-project

On July 19th 2012 LIRDO and "enkaina-e-retoto" informed at a public event in Loiborsoit about the main issues of the Oloisuki project. Members of Tanzanian media took part and reported about this event in detail, e.g. in:

- Gazeti la Kiswahili
- The Citizen

In recent times some more articles about this self-aid-project of the Maasai women in Loiborsoit Tanzania were published on the internet. Unfortunately some of them appear to be based partly on misinformation. In order to prevent further misinterpretation of the project in regards of biopiracy issues we want to adress the following importend points:

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Stop the Serengeti Sell-off

Friends informed us about this important link:

- AVAAZ Stop the Serengeti Sell-off

Errection of school building in Nyorrit finished

In cooperation with our Swedish partner NGO SSL (Strangnas Simanjiro Loiborsoit Friendship Assoiation) the envelope of the new school building in Nyorrit has been errected. The roof of the builduing will be constructed and donated by the government of the Simanjiro District...
 

Information event related to the Oloisuki-project

The involved community of Loiborsoit together with our partner NGO of LIRDO organized a public information event related to our project of Oloisuki. For this event representatives of Government of Simanjiro District, Ministry of Nature Resources and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) from Dar es Salaam joined this event at the base of "enkaina-e-retoto" in Loiborsoit...
 

Kalanga in Switzerland

From the beginning of July 2012, Kalanga from Loiborsoit is visiting us in Switzerland. We all are looking foreward to showing him our country and culture. The visit of Kalanga is a good opportunity for us to go ahead with our joint projects in the Maasai area. His adventures here in Europe can be followed on facebook...
 

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