Cork charity workers to help Africa’s Masai tribe

THREE Cork people who have founded a charity aimed at helping the Masai people of east Africa are to fly to Tanzania next month to undertake an aid project for the tribe.

Estelle Aitken, Margo O’Leary and Michael Swann will be among a group of people who will travel to the northern highlands of Tanzania on January 7, where they hope to provide basics such as shelter and food to the Masai.

Their base will be in a town called Moshi, at the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest Mountain.