Educate a Maasai Girl - Help End FGM and Child Marriage: Steamboat Pilot Update

Sunday, September 20, 2009

New water storage tank at Tasaru thanks to Steamboat Springs Rotary Club

http://www.steamboatpilot.com/news/2009/may/14/mary_walker_local_rotary_club_helps_kenyan_girls_f/

A Maasai Girl and Female Genital Mutilation

INVEST IN A GIRL, SHE WILL DO THE REST

The Tasaru Girls Rescue Centre in Narok, Kenya provides a safehouse and education thru secondary school for Maasai girls rescued from female genital mutilation (FGM) and forced childhood marriage.

If these girls can get proper job training, they will find sustainable employment in Kenya, and return to their communities to provide ongoing economic benefit to their families. As teachers, nurses, lawyers, or in other respected professions these young women will help bring an end to FGM and forced childhood marriage among the Maasai people.

A young Maasai girl has a ONE TIME value to her family when sold off in marriage. If this same girl can go to school, develop a job skill, and have an economic livelihood she will instead provide an ONGOING AND LONGTERM economic benefit to her family.

HERE IS HOW YOU CAN HELP THIS GIRL WITH HER EDUCATION and JOB TRAINING...

A donation of the following amount pays one girl's:

$10: MEDICAL EXAM required prior to college admission.
$20: TOILETRIES for one term of college.
$100: TRANSPORTATION, MEDICAL EXPENSES.
$100: PERSONAL ITEMS needed when leave the center.
$250: TEXTBOOKS for two-year teachers college program.
$750: SCHOOL TUITION FEES for one year of teachers college.

Make a difference! Support a rescued girl.

FOR MORE INFORMATION and how to make a donation to assist a girl, please contact Mary at mewalker99@yahoo.com.

HERE'S HOW YOU CAN HELP- mewalker99@yahoo.com

Invite Mary to speak about Tasaru at a gathering at your home, church, workplace.
Share this website with someone who is interested in joining the fight to end female genital mutilation and forced childhood marriage.
Ask your friends and family to donate to the college fund in lieu of gifts to you.
Instead of gifts to friends/ family for xmas, birthdays, weddings, bar/bat mitzvahs- make a donation to the college fund in their name.
Tell someone influential and philanthropic about the college fund. Do you or someone you know serve on the board of a charitable cause that would entertain a funding request from this fund?
Organize a group of friends or coworkers to sponsor a girl's college education.
If you have successful grantwriting experience - share your skill with me.