Promoting and empowering Maasai women through landscape restoration
Charity is passionate about promoting and empowering the Maasai communities.
She works with the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust (MWCT) empowering the Maasai women of Kuku group ranch economically through restoration-oriented projects. Charity also fights for the rights of the young Maasai women in her community.
“I wish to change the attitude of my community so that they can conserve and restore our dry lands for the current and future generations, by bringing the youth and women to take a lead on this.”
Charity works with the women to restore their landscape through establishing grass seed banks, tree planting and water bunds. They benefit from these restoration initiatives by receiving income from direct employment, the sale of seeds and hay from the grass seed banks and in the long term pasture for their livestock, hence improved livelihoods.
The community in partnership with the group ranch leadership have restored approximately 400 acres of degraded lands and established six 10 acre grass seed banks. The Kuku Group Ranch comprises 283,000 acres of biologically diverse, critical wildlife corridor area in Kenya’s Chyulu Hills landscape, at the heart of the Greater Tsavo-Amboseli Ecosystem and home to the iconic Maasai tribe.
“I am motivated to do restoration because it’s the only way to get a better place for the current and future generations.”
The Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) selected Charity as one of their Restoration Steward in 2021 through which she received capacity building and a grant of 5000 Euros to promote her work.