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Nashipay Maasai Initiatives (NMI)
Registration Number 00NGO/R/2075
P.O. Box 14937 Arusha Tanzania
nashipayinitiatives@gmail.com
WhatsApp: +255 767 964 338
Our Mission
Nashipay Maasai Initiatives (NMI)
We would like to be agents of our change rather than victims of change.
The Nashipay Maasai Initiatives is a community-based non-profit organization NGO based in Makuyuni, Monduli District in Arusha Region of Tanzania. The organization’s humanitarian and relief work is aimed at building schools, water systems, providing academic scholarship to disadvantaged children, and supporting sustainable economic development projects in the Maasai region.
PHILOSOPHY
To preserve Maasai culture
MISSION
To empower the Maasai people so that they can make better-informed decisions affecting our future, and to minimize permanent migration of young men and women from the community into urban areas
MEANS TO MEET OUR MISSION
Our Fully Integrated Development Strategy encompasses the following.
EDUCATION
Objectives:
- To build learning institutions such as a primary school, secondary school, vocational and training college, library, cultural center and other educational institutions essential to community self-reliance and cultural conservation.
- To set up and run an educational fund program for bursaries, scholarships and other educational sponsorships for needy students from the area.
- To build a health center/clinic and promote a community health education and disease prevention program.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Objectives:
- To create employment in the local area through alternative income generating activities such as community-based tourism and intercultural exchange program.
- To help the community promote ecologically and culturally sensitive business activities for the purpose of community building, employment, and economic self-reliance.
- To support and improve sustainable traditional livestock practices and insure food and permaculture for security.
- To support the villagers through a micro-lending program of cattle and goats for the purpose of reducing poverty in the local area.
LONG-TERM GOAL
To integrate the Maasai people into the modern world, while preserving the culture through education, health, environmental conservation, and economic development.
