Barbara Lee Shaw's blog

MGEF is celebrating its tenth year, and we have much to celebrate. During this past decade we have watched many shy, soft-spoken girls become confident, poised young women who are now university students, or college and university graduates working, living independently, and helping their families live a better life.

The November 2010 issue of BeInkandescent, an online magazine "for entrepreneurs by entrepreneurs," features MGEF from a personal perspective.  Just click on the link to see the article:

http://www.beinkandescent.com/articles/393/nonprofit-masaai-education-fu...
 

I am excited to announce that the Maasai Girls Education Fund has a new Web site. Please visit the site and read about what we are doing in Kenya to improve the lives of Maasai girls, women, and their communities through education.  The site is easy to navigate, informative, and contains many photos of our students and activities. 

I hope you will visit the new site soon.  

With best regards on behalf of all Maasai women,

The Maasai Girls Education Fund is working to empower Maasai women in Kenya through education, and we are succeeding. A new video--Only Through Education--captures why our work is important and how we are making a difference, not only to the women we educate, but to their families and communities as well.

The Maasai Girls Education Fund is dedicated to educating Maasai girls and providing each and every one of our students with the knowledge and skills to get a job in Kenya. In this way, we are empowering Maasai women to end early marriages of girls and develop alternative rites of passage into womanhood, to reduce poverty and all of its consequences in their communities, and to become all that they dream to be.