Maasai Development Project

Changing Lives in Kenya, One Child at a time.

Young Maasai Girls

For over 25 years, the impact of Maasai Development Project has grown. What started with building friendships with nearby Maasai ladies, progressed into literacy programs, Bible Studies, hiring Lay Pastors, and rescuing and educating young at-risk girls.

Young Maasai girls have very few rights and face many obstacles to get an education, if they get one at all, due to poverty and culture of the Maasai people. Tradition holds that young girls are to be circumcised (FGM) before they are then sold into marriage, most often to a much older man, in exchange for a dowry of cows.

Rescue Girls

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 families.

Culturally, it is customary for children who are born out of wedlock to live as servants. Leftover food is given after all other household members have eaten. As was the case of Noosim (little girl on the left). Noosim was rescued in May, 2023, by a Lay Pastor who found her in the river doing the family’s laundry. After an investigation, he brought her to the safety of MDP Educational Centre.

Guess What?

We reached our goal!

After many years worshiping under a tree, thanks to donors like you, 24 church building were added throughout Maasailand in the year 2023. More people can be reached to learn about God’s infinite love, and receive resources to far unreachable communities in need.

Thanks to the donations, the girls are so excited to get a sound system at the Centre as a Christmas present. The Hope Sisters Choir can also use it for their program. The above picture is of the Hope Sisters Choir in their new uniforms.

MDP Girls Thankful for Christmas Donations.

MDP Lay Pastors

MDP Lay Pastors are our first responders to Maasailand. They are truly called by God to reach the unentered areas of Maasailand to share the Gospel of hope.

MDP Education Centre

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

MDP Projects

MDP helps to meet the community’s needs, both, physically and spiritually. Food sharing during drought season, medical/dental clinics, weekly radio station programs, are giving the Maasai in the surrounding communities hope and health.

MDP Story

This was just the beginning. Today, it is amazing what God has done and what He continues to do in Kenya, Africa, through sponsors like you.

Thank you for contributing for this mission to keep one Maasai child at a time, to live longer and more prosperous.