Empowering women to establish entrepreneurial programs

• Garden Produce sales
• Goat Milk and cheese sales
• Maasai beaded Jewelry sales
• Solar Cookers sales
• Owning water bore holes and installing solar water pumps

Empowering Youth through Training

• Providing boys and girls with equipments and training to use computers and cell phones so that they can teach these skills to their family.
• Teaching them how to establish and run successful small businesses such as
• Beekeeping
• Photocopy and printing services
• Livestock fattening for final sale

This helps youth to be able to stay in their pastoralistic communities and to assist their young brothers and sisters with their education.

SOLAR POWER COMMUNITY
FM RADIO STATION

• To spread community news in three languages, Maasai, kiswahili and English.
• To create dialogue, provide information about disasters, and be a forum to announce lost children and cows.
• To provide an opportunity to broadcast success stories, Maasai traditional events, and share our Maasai music.
• To be a place where entrepreneurs can advertise their product in exchange for sustainable support of the radio station.
• To provide a way to document and preserve our Maasai history and culture.

IMPROVING THE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT IN RURAL SCHOOLS

• Training of students in installing and ongoing maintenance of solar panels in schools
• Resulting documented improvement on the national test scores, allowing students to obtain advanced level education
• Monitoring governmental oversight of accurate operation of the solar equipment

IMPROVING RURAL HEALTH CENTERS

• Providing solar energy to health centers/dispensaries in rural areas
• Providing solar training for staff on how to use solar energy in the delivery room, in the operating room, and the in refrigeration of critical medical supplies.
• Monitoring governmental oversight of accurate operation of the solar equipment.

Environmental protection

• Encouraging Protection of water sources in Simanjiro
• Teaching masaai individuals and communities on how to get leases on communal land so that others interests cannot secures leases
• Controlling invasive, poisonousness bushes, by removing young plants before they spread seeds
• Providing a program for women to plants trees near water sources, to filter water and eliminate evaporations