Maasai Development Project

Changing Lives in Kenya, One Child at a time.

MDP Beginnings

Maasai Development Project (MDP) has been making an impact throughout Maasailand since 1998. As friendships developed with nearby Maasai ladies, Bible studies and literacy classes began.

Due to the number of requests from interior areas of Maasailand for Maasai Lay Pastors and Literacy Teachers, MDP began the Lay Pastor and Literacy sponsorship programs. It didn’t take long before the call came to assist the vulnerable child escaping Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and forced early marriage; at which time, the children sponsorship program began.

MDP Education Centre

Noosim - age 6. Rescued on June 2023.
Maasailand Girl

Educating girls is an effective way to reduce poverty, improve health, and economic well-being in the Maasai communities.

Noosim, (little girl on the left) was an unwanted child. She was taken to a relative’s home where she was treated as a servant, with only ragged clothes, no shoes, and half starved. Her story was relayed to the MDPEC Manager, and after an investigation, Noosim was brought to the safety of the MDP Education Centre where she is happy, healthy, and receiving an education.

MDP Lay Pastors strive to represent Christ through active evangelism, connecting with those who are hurting and share the gospel of hope by teaching in unentered areas of Maasailand.

MDP Lay Pastors

MDP Education Centre

Maasai Development Project Education Centre (MDPEC), provides at-risk girls a safe place to receive an education to fulfill their dreams.

MDP Projects

  • Building projects

  • Provide medical clinics

  • Food programs for widows

  • Literacy classes

  • Community education on FGM

“Missions is something very important to me” 

“Though I thought I couldn’t really do anything, everyplace I went it was a progression of how God brought me out of my shell and brought me into the interest of service” 

“No matter where I was God took me one step further. God wants us out of our comfort zones and he equips us…but if we just say yes to Him he will equip us with whatever that is.”

  ~ Jan Ashley (Latsha)

Through your sponsorships, God is continuing to do work throughout Maasailand, Changing Lives in Kenya, One Child at a Time.

Jans’ Story