Unsere Studentin, Helen Lakanet erzählt von der Lebenssituation vieler MASSAI Frauen in Kenia:

Our community is one of the kenyan tribes who still hold to their culture. Because of this culture women are still considered junior to men in the community. They still wear their cultural attire and they look beautiful. Tourist have been coming to kenya to see the maasai attires because they are very beautiful and original.

The work of the women is to look after cattle and goats and small businesses in the market.
They get money from milk and making maasai jewelery. A large percentage of them are not educated. The few that are educated got sponsored by missionaries and other charity organisations. They do not have formal jobs except the small percentage educated. Those educated do not develop much because siblings and other relatives who are not educated depend on their salary unlike when all family members are educated. It is their role to make houses called manyattas which are made of cowdung and grass. They still practice female genital mutilation (FGM) and recently the goverment banned the practice but all maasai women were against.

These women are not exposed because they are always confined at home and so do not travel out. My message to the maasai women is to take up education more seriously if they want to eradicate poverty and elevate their role in the community. They should also do away with cultural practices like FGM that do not contribute to the development of the maasai Woman.