Health Care and Health Education Programs Seek to:

• Increase understanding of transmission, prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS and other STIs among the Maasai people
• Create awareness of the prevention and treatment of communicable diseases
• Build and improve health facilities in Maasai rural areas, facilitating the training and equipment of health personnel among the Maasai people
• Increase the knowledge and benefits of family planning
• Raise awareness and sensitize the community regarding the health risk of female genital mutilation

Free Medical Camps for the Maasai People

ELAND in collaboration with Maasai medical profession is sponsoring free medical camps for rural Maasai communities. Kajiado County the site for this project is predominantly inhabited by the culturally conservative and mostly illiterate Maasai people. The Maasai community That ELAND's programs target is famously known for its preservation of their beautiful culture & the game reserves in their areas of settlements. However little is said about the hardships they undergo in their daily lives in a world that is no more accommodating to their native way of life. The Maasai people of Kajiado County in Kenya are facing deeply seated health problems as a result of poverty, lack of access to health facilities, low education level and lack of information. Only a limited number of Maasai people can make it to a health care facility due to unavailability of health care facilities, long distances to the few facilities present and generally severe economic hardships and lack of basic information on health care. Health insurance is nonexistent in these rural communities.

ELAND is teaming up with Maasai health profession to bridge the gap between poverty and access to essential life saving health care services among medically impoverished communities in rural Kenya.

Today you can be part of this team, to save lives, by providing essential health care to poor communities and vulnerable children.