On July 27th, MWEDO* staff, Maasai women community organizers, and girls sponsored by MWEDO’s scholarship program arrived at the Maasai Women Secondary School to celebrate the completion of its first phase of construction. We volunteers were all still scrambling around to put the finishing touches on the building, staging a dormitory room and a classroom to show the women what the furnished school would look like, carefully cleaning windows set in putty that was not yet dry, or laboriously sweeping and cleaning two months of construction dirt and dust from the floors of the rooms.

Want to make a difference? Reach Out to Humanity (ROTH) is recruiting its team of runners for the Marathon Oasis de Montréal , held this September 5th! Runners have been participating in this marathon on behalf of ROTH for three years, raising over $30,000, helping to build life-saving and life-changing infrastructure all over the world.

Shy at first, the children living in the villages around the site of the Maasai Women Secondary School have become great friends of the ROTH volunteers. Nowadays, you can hear children yelling the names of many of our volunteers as they pass by the site, waving a greeting to the volunteers hard at work. 

Our volunteers have been paint-splattered for almost a week straight now; with so much work to be done, we’ve all been pulling long days at the site in order to complete phase I of the Maasai Women Secondary School on time.