Cork charity workers to help Africa’s Masai 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.
They will travel 160km north of Moshi to a settlement called Karao to carry out the work.
“The Masai people... have turned their backs upon the prizes and temptations offered by the West. But because of resettlement problems the Maasai in Karao have to walk 20 miles a day, across all kinds of terrain, just to fetch water,” Michael Swann said.
Their charity, Masai on the Move, is working on a five-year plan to bring relief, build a school and develop the area to a standard where the tribe will have at least food and basic education.
