Introduction
Entito refers to, ‘a girl’ in Maasai Language. This Community project came into being to help alleviate the tough challenges the Masai girl child go through.
Background
Entito Emaa Community CBO was founded as a result of the numerous challenges the Masai girl Child goes through and the extreme marginalization in the society including but not limited to female genital mutilation, early forced marriages and limited access to education. Girls in the Maa Communities are never considered of equal importance as boys hence the girl child is by design forced to take care of all manual chores such as building the family house, cooking, cleaning, fetching water kilometers away, firewood, taking care of children and livestock. Unfortunately, because the mothers are not educated and untrained, it becomes impossible to change future generation which forms a recipe for poverty and all kinds of challenges in the society
Why the Girl Child?
Training/educating a girl child is educating a nation….
It’s a known fact that the foundation of every home is the woman. The peace, the wellbeing, economic management and the education of the family depends on her to a very large extent.
All the activities that will help the family and channel it towards prosperity rest on her shoulder. If she is well cultured, peaceful and trained it will certainly reflect in her home.
There will be peace, love, and prosperity reflecting in the home, but the reverse will be the case if she is uneducated/trained and careless in handling the affairs of the home.