Oltukai Conservancy

Category: Uncategorized | Date: Jan 28 2008 | By: admin

Hello All!

A quick update and some new information!

The Ol Tukai Conservancy and The Tanzanian Govt. helped the Ol Tukai community to organize themselves into the water supply programme in which two durable dams were constructed. These dams are now filled with water, that used for washing at tapstand constructed in Ol Tukai Village.
I know how hard life is for women in the Maasai steppe. Here in Ol Tukai, women used to rise at dawn to milk the cattle before tying water containers on the donkeys to begin enough km trek to their water sources at the river basin of Ol Tukai or mswakini, way over there. They had to bring enough water for their family plus for any sick livestock who could not walk to water.
Sometimes this took 4-8 hours every day. Now with the new piped water scheme delivery water right to a tap stand near our homes, We have plenty of water not just for human, livestock and wildlife drinking, but for washing as much as we want.

NEVER TOO OLD TO LEARN.
Besides sensitization and training of Village, Ol Tukai Conservancy, other major input is in skills training, particularly those skills which will enable masai women groups to learn income and improve the quality of lives. In 2007, 120 women to the opportunity to learn skills in diverse fields to like handicrafting, Beading, Loan management, Business management including running a small village shop and mobilize funds from the conservancy and other sources to help each improve the lives.
What began as small changes has had a great impact.

THE VILLAGE INFORMATION CENTRE- FRUIT OF OL TUKAI CONSERVANCY.
If you do not have information, you are like a house that no one lives in.
When this partnerships of the conservancy and the community infrastructure, the Tanzanian Govt, and The African Wildlife Foundation and equiped the village information centre, Ol Tukai community got access to whole World of Information.
Of course, We are most interested in what is going on in our Neighbouring Countries and developments in the piece process and security, but we are also interested in events in the World, and now we have access through newspapers, magazines and satellite radio.
The Anti-poaching team, staff and the community at large use the centre a lot for coordination, and it can also functions as a community centre, where we can hold meetings and other events.
INFORMATION IS A SWEET FRUIT.

Thank you for your continued support!

Boniface Ngimojino