Talking Maasai Women ... From Masai Mara with love ...

"The only sheep died of a woman who had nothing to eat for days...When I went to her house I saw her cutting some small piece of sheep to prepare to cook. "Where is rest of the sheep?" I asked her.
"I gave the rest of it to other women" she answered. Then I got very angry. Because she was the poorest in this area. "Why did you give everything when you have nothing" I asked her with anger.
"I cannot eat this sheep alone when my neighbors are sleeping hungry..."

"Shame after shame... Me... Among Maasai women living in Masai Mara... Me... Learning how to be true human being among hunger...!"

- Nasha (From my memoirs)

Analyze this... If you dare!

They are hungry, they are laughing!

You are full of food, you are crying!

They die of hunger...

You die of too much eating!

They have nothing and they find everyhting in this nothingness...

You have everyhting and you find nothing in this everything...

They have nothing, they love life, they are full of love, and respect...

You have everything, you hate life, you are full of anger and disrespect!...

Shame huh? Or sickness? Or ungratefulness?

Do you know me?
I am the oldest woman in the world. I have no name and no tomorrow.
I am a Maasai woman...

"We know how to live with nothing. Do you know how to live with everything?"
- Maasai mothers

"We are wishing so many beautiful women from all over the world will come and visit us... Share our life, share our stories, emotions, feelings and our hearts... as much as we want to share yours. And give a piece of your heart to us as much as we want to give to you. We shall take care of those pieces and put them together... It will be the biggest heart in the world... WOMEN'S HEART...!

Change your heart around you and be partners of our dreams and hopes."
- Maasai women from Masai Mara with love...

Morrans, morrans, morrans...
When they sing, dance and jump everybody forget us...
Where are those beautiful Maasai women who gave birth to morrans next to cattle? Where do they fit in?

Besides doing everything in Masai Mara with the Maasai, they forgot the most precious thing behind... No one thinks about them...
Those precious Maasai women, mothers, grandmothers and girls...

"How many times in my life, I have died while, I am still alive?
I lost two of my children to hunger. I am drinking water and watching them to die."

"And one day suddenly, I realized maybe I am woman and I know nothing about it. About my own self, my heart, my body, hopes, dreams, desires...they don't belong to me. And I always forget myself. How can I remember myself if, I don't have one. And at the end, I will never know if I have ever been a woman."

"We Maasai women, do we have anything to celebrate? Have many of our children go to higher education each year? What are the options and the choices we have for our children?"


"Come and learn what it means being a woman, being a Maasai woman among cattle, among traditions and among Maasai men in Masai Mara!"



"Dear, you were strong, I was not..."
Taking care of AIDS victim in Masai Mara. There are so many among Maasai women and they know nothing about it. Even if they knew most of them can not say "no" to men. Doing the world's oldest job just to be able to buy hand full food for their children.

"One time in my life I want to wake up and not think
how and where to find food for my children.
Only one morning in my life...!"

Maasai fathers kill the dreams of Maasai girls.
Skills, talents and ability lost after cattle and dust...
Before they take care of their children they must
take care other people's children...other people's demands and orders...

Maasai women have only one love...Their children.
They struggle and suffer only for the love of their children. No one can take away this love and compassion from them not even their husbands...They raise them with nothing and at the end of the day if they have little food for their children it means they made the day...Maasai day...!

And tomorrow?
Well...there is no tomorrow for Maasai women in Masai Mara...!

Consulting about AIDS and S.T.D and listening Maasai women about their biggest worry and problems...Every each of them has same worry and same problems...

Most common diseases among Maasai:

Malaria(most killer), Typhoid, Brucellosis,Dysentery, S.T.D(gonorrhea, syphilis. Very common among women), Worms, Eye problems( very common due to infection, gonorrhea, smoke), Complex and difficult delivery due to female circumcision, Pneumonia(especially children), T.B coming up due to AIDS, Anthrax due to eating dead cow, bull, sheep meat, Skin diseases. Malnutrition, Infant mouth infection, Infected wounds, Sores with pus, Urine infection, Meningitis, Gut infections, Dehydration, Stiff, sore muscles and joints, Sore throat, or tonsillitis, Cataract(very common), Heartburn(very common among women), Scabies( very common among children).
Ring worms,Migraine/strong headaches(very common among women, Anemic (especially among pregnant women) Disable children due to Maasai traditional treatment, neglect, or due to financial problems.

"Yes, I agree. We have more options. First of all we have enough education to deal with life. Maasai women do not have education. My husband left me with three small children. But a big help organization from USA, lent me enough money to start my own business. Now I am able to send my children to school, pay my house rent. We have enough food to eat and my business increasing."
(From meeting with African women)