COINS FOR CHANGE
Real Lives. Real Impact. Real Change.
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What we aim to solve
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Sponsoring Children’s Education
Being sponsored into a quality boarding school helps protect Maasai girls from forced FGM and early marriage, and provides them with three meals a day and a good education. These girls tend to marry later in life and foster healthier and more prosperous conditions for their families and communities. The majority of our sponsored students are girls, but we know that we must also educate boys to meet our mission. The better educated the male Maasai is, the more they will support the laws against early marriage and FGM.
Alleviating poverty
In 2009, Kenya had a severe drought that killed 90% of the Maasai’s livestock. Most Amboseli Maasai now live on 35c a day. Donating a goat to a family gives them a sustainable source of nutrition and income, as the goat’s milk can be consumed or exchanged for other much-needed items.
Safe House
When Maasai girls and women are endangered in Amboseli, Kenya, they run to Chief Mary Kahingo. The Safe House is being built next to Chief Mary’s home and will protect the women and girls until the courts or Maasai chiefs are able to alleviate the danger.
Academy for Women’s and Girls’ Rights
The Academy will train Maasai women and girls as peer educators and change agents in the community, acquainting them with the Kenyan laws that ban early marriage and FGM, and teaching them accepted alternative non-FGM rite of passage ceremonies.
Hearing and Vision Campaign
Getting eye exams and glasses is fairly easy and inexpensive and can make a world of difference to a child. More severe issues arise from longstanding untreated ear infections. These can result in significant hearing loss or, in the worst case, complete hearing loss. Severe cases require a surgical intervention and, as there aren't any adequate treatment centers nearby, children must go all the way to Nairobi (four hours away). Repeated trips are necessary for consultations, medications to prepare them for surgeries and follow up visits. These costs are prohibitive for most Maasai families.
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COINS FOR CHANGE
Board of directorsas of 03/08/2018
Ronald McIntire
Tamara Gregoire
Andrea Frazier