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Education & Child Protection
Empowering Maasai Children to Thrive Through Education, Safety, and Rights-Based Protection
At The Maa Trust, we believe every child has the right to safety, dignity, and opportunity. Our Integrated Education and Child Protection pillar empowers children in the Maasai Mara by increasing access to quality education while actively working to end harmful practices such as female genital mutilation (FGM), child marriage, and child labour.
Through deep community partnerships and culturally grounded approaches, we champion the rights of children (especially girls) by creating safe, inclusive spaces to learn, grow, and lead. From equipping schools with essential resources to strengthening child safeguarding systems, our programmes are designed not just for access, but for long-term impact.
Rooted in evidence and driven by community voices, we uplift the next generation with knowledge, confidence, and care, because when children are protected and empowered, families thrive, and the future of conservation becomes stronger.
14,806
Pupils reached with education strengthening interventions
95
Children supported through basic and tertiary scholarships
900
dollars per year to completely transform a child’s life through the scholarship programme.
48
youth trained as peer mentors
831
women engaged in capacity building
Education & Skills
Youth and Women's Empowerment
The women’s empowerment programme builds the capacity of women through the formal registration of women’s groups, which then receive training on a variety of skills including microfinance, household financial management, nutrition, cancer detection and adult numeracy and literacy.
Career guidance has been completely absent from the Mara to-date, and so this programme is addressing a critical gap.
Education & Skills
Integrated Child Development
Some children are never given the opportunity to go to school, and many of those in school drop out before reaching the end of secondary school – especially girls. Child marriage, child pregnancy, female genital mutilation and child labor are major factors causing drop outs.
