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AMBOSELI LIVESTOCK FARMERS ASSOCIATION
BACKGROUND
Since time in history, learning has been a problem in Amboseli Maasailand for the major
economic activity is large scale keeping of cattle and socially practiced cultural practices
like circumcisions and they mind about holding a lot of cows than taking their children to
school. The cattle they depended upon all were swept by the 2009 hunger drought and
famine, this returned back a lot of families to poverty and a lot of school dropouts since
the whole community emigrated in search of pasture and water for their livestock and
living. I would like to propose you assist us in priorities basing your support in these
main areas;
1. Educational awareness and campaigns
2. Drilling boreholes to enable us practice crop farming.
1. EDUCATIONAL AWARENESS AND CAMPAIGNS
We took our case study as Amboseli School
AMBOSELI SCHOOL HISTORY
The Amboseli School started with students sitting and study under a tree for lack of
classrooms and sitting desks. The total number of students was as low as 13 pupils whose
parents decided to bring them to school for learning and playing. We faced a lot of
challenges for this because: It is an open place so dust could affect the children and the
teachers seriously, whenever it rained, it was the end of learning for that day and children
who reside from far could even drown into the nearby valleys for lack of classes to get
protected. Learning was also very poor where the overall performance of the school was
extremely down
This hardship and suffering went on until well wishers and donors who visited the school
felt pity on the marginalized community and out of sheer generosity they assisted to shift
us from learning under a tree to a more comfortable building of two rooms. As you see,
in the right photo, the children are so much squeezed and due to the decentralization of
education offices and ministries we have been isolated in our country and so the whole
burden of school fees charges, buying of uniform and water bills is relying on parents.
The number of children is also increasing in alarming rate, since the community now
understands the concept of education and its benefits to the realization of their visions
and better future for their children. We therefore hope to get donations and support to
assist pluck us out of this cocoon of no enough space for learning and lack of comfortable
studies.
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DRILLING BOREHOLES TO ENABLE US PRACTICE CROP
FARMING
Another major problem within our community is the scarcity of water that is lack of safe
water for drinking and enough water for domestic use. As you can see above, it is the sole
responsibility of mothers and daughters to fetch water but without the assistance of
domestic animals like donkeys this has never been possible. The area experiences very
low rainfall one month of October once in a year making living and surviving too
difficult affecting the school in hindering learning causing unfavorable climate leading to
illness. Sometimes in dry seasons, these school children drink water from the animals’
troughs. This automatically brings diseases leading to death.
As you see above, we as the community of Amboseli came together, share our ideas and
decided to forward our petition to well wishers so that we get support to solve all these
obstacles towards the future of our children and better learning. We then request that we
construct 2 more classrooms to withstand the abnormal growth of the children number in
one classroom, and access water from a near source to eliminate long distance walk of 17
kilometers to get water. They have been attacked by wild animals since they walk along
the park to get to the source.
It is also the responsibility of the parents to fetch water necessary for school usage and
their children consumption. They use the beast of burden (Donkeys) to fetch water to
school for cooking and other related school uses.
The school compound and its environment is naked. Wild animals normally enter the
school area while the children are on the playground. To make the matter worse, children
even sneak from school to their homes pre-time and this contributes to poor performance
and loose of learning interest. We therefore in urgent need of a school fence
establishment to abundantly protect the school, children and its surrounding.
Finally, the community held a general prayer before they propose any support, they think
is necessary and relevant to hand over to God their cry. They use the school dually as the
church and learning place too. To mention but a few, they are devoted Christians who
attend to church every Sunday to pray, praise and worship being led by their spiritual
pastor.
OBJECTIVES
1. To encourage increase in education interest
2. To improve learning and convenient teaching
3. To settle human-wildlife conflicts in our land
4. To get enough water for domestic use and farming.