We are excited to share that we received USD 6.5 million from USAID in November 2023 to implement a five-year project titled “Conservation of the Maasai Mara Landscape”. The award…
We successfully transitioned 21 local merry-go-round women groups to village savings and loan association (VSLA) schemes, and they have completed a 12-month cycle of operations. By December 2023, the groups…
Nasieku (not her real name), a teenager from Aitong’ got pregnant in class seven and delivered in early 2023. Her parents were unwilling to take her back to school until…
We have made incredible progress in building the governance infrastructure of our member conservancies. Notably, we supported 13 conservancies to register legal entities in 2023, bringing the total number of…
MMWCA was able to provide better coordination and amplify conservation benefits to the local people, which led to a mindset change and eventual behaviour change resulting in the establishment of…
The newly established Wildlife Tourism College of Maasai Mara (WTC) welcomed its first 40 students to its campus at Pardamat Conservation Area on May 4, 2023. The students are pursuing…
In September 2016, while attending the Global Walk for Elephants and Rhinos in Talek, Maasai Mara, an old man rose to speak during the lunch and speeches session that followed…
The membership of landowners committees, critical conservancies governing organs, for Mara Conservancies were all men. Interestingly, it was a normal thing because, in any case, men owned the land as…
Heads often turn when Charity Lemein drives by in her safari Toyota Landcruiser. Sighting a female safari guide is a rarity. Well, not that much anymore, but it is still…
Women and youth got little direct benefit, specifically lease payment, from conservation. Lack of substantive benefits results from structural issues that see the title holders, the majority of them men,…
