Two photos by MGEF Founder and President, Barbara Lee Shaw, are on digital display with other beautiful works of art here: http://mama.imow.org/gallery. We are honored to be included!

Did you know? Mothers are the backbone of the Maasai family.

MGEF Founder and President, Barbara Lee Shaw, was recently featured in CIEL's 2011 Annual Report. Read about her story by clicking the PDF file below. 

Our friends at Kabissa.org (a social network nonprofit that empowers and connects grassroots NGOs committed to African civil society) wrote a lovely case study about MGEF, which is featured on their homepage and here: http://www.kabissa.org/maasai-girls-education-fund. We're thrilled to be partners with Kabissa and truly appreciate their work. Thanks, Kabissa!

In December 2011, MGEF students Simantoi Kilama and Priscilla Seet graduated from post-secondary institutions with degrees in psychology and teaching, respectively. To share their accomplishments, Simantoi and Priscilla invited the community to a celebratory event, held on December 28th, 2011.

Maasai Girls Education Fund is the recipient of a Google Grants award, as of December 18th, 2011.

Last week three women, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian Leymah Gbowee and Tawakul Karman of Yemen, were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their tremendous peace building efforts in their respective countries. This announcement came on the heels of several global conferences, including CGI 2011, during which international leaders called for an end to child marriage, FGM, and gender inequality. Prominent figures like Archbishop Desmond Tutu noted girls' education as crucial to eliminating these evils.

It's Blog Action Day 2011 and we're all here for the main course, that is, the discourse on food. It may come as no surprise that nutrition, poverty, and international development are all intricately linked, and many poignant words will be written on this very topic today.

Just recently, MGEF was selected by the GlobalGiving Foundation to participate in its Open Challenge, a fundraising opportunity for nonprofit organizations working around the world. In order to succeed in GlobalGiving's Open Challenge, we must raise $4,000 from at least 50 donors by December 31st.