I met Seele today. She is a Maasai woman and works with an organization called CORDS. The fundamental purpose of CORDS is to enhance sustainable pastoral livelihoods.
The overall goal is to integrate women fully into pastoral development processes through initiating projects that reduce women's workloads, improve their working and living conditions and enhance development status of pastoral women from the grassroots.
Seele conducts seminars and trainings in order:
To impact new knowledge and skills to women about running small scale projects
To raise their capacity for income generating activities.
Privation of credit to self-help women's groups.
To prevent FGM (female genital mutilation)
I plan to work with Seele, adding to her micro-lending as well as helping to teach basic business classes. I think it would be interesting for women to spend a day with a Maasai woman, perhaps go to market with her, which is held once a month, and help her sell. I'm not sure yet exactly what they sell but it is the same market where their sons go to sell the cattle.
see this link for more details
http://www.cordstz.org/
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