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Just 48 percent of Maasai girls enroll in school, and only 5 percent of those who enroll will make it to secondary school.

90 percent of Maasai girls undergo female genital mutilation.

Girls between the ages of 15 to 24 are four to six times more likely to become infected with HIV than their male peers.

The average life expectancy for a Maasai woman is 45 years.

Michelle Spada is an MGEF summer intern from Vanderbilt University, working in Kajiado for seven weeks this summer beginning June 12, 2010.  She has created a blog to record her experience.  The details of her discoveries and insights provide valuable insights into the lives of Maasai girls and women, and to the inspiration for MGEF.  

Share her experience.