A Day's Work

Maa woman beading in Olgulului, Amboseli, Kenya

Maa woman beading in Olgulului, Amboseli, Kenya

For a Maasai woman in Amboseli, managing a typical day’s responsibilities is no small feat. She rises before dawn to milk cows, prepares meals for her family, walks for miles to do laundry and fetch water, carries heavy barrels of water and logs of firewood and embarks on the long trek home (if not lucky to have a donkey or a vehicle to assist). She is responsible for monitoring the cows health and well-being while ensuring that their pen entrance is closed and opened every evening and morning.

After she has fed, clothed and tended to the family, and livestock, and all are settled in, she sits down to work on her beading projects — usually around midnight. She is the last to go to bed and the first to rise.

Nobel, strong and dignified, a Maasai mama shows the world what the “strength of a woman” truly looks like.

By creating market opportunities for her to sell her one-of-a-kind beadwork to the global community, you will help ease her burden and thereby open new horizons for her and her family.

Murugi Kenyatta