Four programmes. One connected system. Every Maasai girl deserves the full journey.
WHAT WE DO
Our Programs.
Explore our four connected programmes driving education, safety, leadership and community change across Maasai communities in Tanzania. Every programme connects directly to the next to ensure a secure journey from vulnerability to independent leadership. No girl falls through the gap because every gap has been filled by design.
Education Sidai
Every year Maasai girls who pass their primary school exams never make it to secondary school. Not because they failed. But because patriarchy got there first. Education Sidai exists to get there faster. We go directly into communities, find the girls who have been left behind, secure their school placement, provide everything they need and walk with them every step of the way. We do not wait for girls to come to us. We go to them.
Our work under this programme is delivered through 3 key approaches:
Vulnerable Girls Identification
We go into Maasai communities and identify girls who passed their primary school exams but were never enrolled in secondary school due to forced and early marriage, poverty or family pressure. We find the girl before patriarchy does.
School Placement and Full Provision
We secure confirmed placement in government secondary schools and provide every girl with tuition fees, uniforms, books and all learning materials. No Maasai girl drops out of school because her family cannot afford to keep her there.
Monitoring and Progress Tracking
We track every girl academically and socially throughout her journey. We check in regularly with her teachers and her community to ensure she is thriving not just surviving. Every girl we enroll is a girl we stay with.
523
Maasai girls directly supported
26
Partner Government Schools
100%
Retention Rate
200+
Families impacted
Nganashehood
A girl who makes it to secondary school still carries the weight of a community that did not want her there. Nganashehood exists to build what school alone cannot. The confidence. The voice. The fire. Through mentorship, coaching, life skills, leadership development and mental health support we transform Maasai girls from the inside out so they do not just stay in school. They lead it. They go back to their communities and they change it. Nganashehood is not a programme. It is a movement growing one girl at a time.
Our work under this programme is delivered through 4 key approaches:
Life Skills and Mentorship
Girls develop essential life skills including public speaking, teamwork, communication and personal leadership through regular mentorship and coaching sessions. Every session is a step toward a girl who knows her worth and is not afraid to show it.
Mental Health and Trauma Support
We create safe spaces where girls can speak openly about what they have experienced without fear or judgment. Through guided sessions, peer support and professional guidance we help girls process trauma, heal from the weight of patriarchal oppression and build the emotional resilience they need to move forward. A girl who is heard is a girl who can heal. A girl who heals is a girl who leads.
Career Development
We expose girls to career pathways, possibilities and role models they have never had access to before. We connect them with professionals, mentors and opportunities that show them that their future has no ceiling and that a Maasai girl can become anything she chooses to be.
Sexual and Rights Education
We give girls honest, accurate knowledge about their bodies, their rights and their power. Girls who understand their rights are girls who can defend them. This knowledge is not a bonus in Nganashehood. It is a foundation.
2000+
85 %
12
School Clubs Active
100%
Engage in public speaking and choose careers.
Serian Homes
School holidays are the most dangerous time for a Maasai girl. When she goes home the patriarchy is waiting. Serian Homes gives her somewhere safe to go. Not just a roof over her head but a fully furnished home built for one purpose, creating and building life. Inside Serian Homes girls live in a warm, protected environment completely shielded from the threat of forced and early marriage and free to focus entirely on growing. Their mothers come too. Together they learn, earn, preserve their culture and grow in a space that does not just protect them from the past. It prepares them for the future.
Our work under this programme is delivered through 3 key approaches:
Life Skills and Personal Development
Inside Serian Homes girls build practical and personal skills including public speaking, writing, teamwork and climate resilience. Through structured sessions and shared living girls develop into young women who are ready to lead in every area of their lives.
Cultural Preservation
Serian Homes is a space where Maasai identity is celebrated, not hidden. Girls speak their mother tongue, sing traditional Maasai songs, dance their dances, wear their traditional clothing and share stories passed down through generations. Because a girl who knows where she comes from knows exactly where she is going.
Women Economic Empowerment
Mothers join their daughters at Serian Homes making traditional Maasai accessories sold through tourism partnerships in Arusha, generating real independent income for women who have never earned before. Girls watch. Girls learn. Girls understand that their future does not have to look like their mothers past.
50
Girls Housed in Safe Houses
254
women benefited from livelihood programs created
52%
Girls Protected from FGM and Marriage
100%
Safe Return to School
Olosho Voices
A girl cannot be safe, educated and empowered if the world around her is still working against her. Olosho Voices is the programme that makes everything else possible. We go into Maasai communities and sit with parents, elders, leaders, NGOs and government agencies. We do not lecture. We listen. We ask hard questions. We challenge forced and early marriage openly and honestly. And we do not stop until every Maasai girl has a community that protects her instead of one that silences her.
Our work under this programme is delivered through 2 key approaches:
Community Dialogues and Champions
We hold powerful community dialogues with parents, elders and leaders that directly challenge forced and early marriage and the patriarchal norms that silence Maasai girls. We do not treat fathers and elders as obstacles. We engage them as the most powerful advocates a girl can have. When a father stands up in a community meeting and defends his daughter's right to education everything around her changes.
Government and Policy Advocacy
We engage government agencies and NGO partners to advocate for policies that protect Maasai girls, promote their education and hold communities accountable. We participate in policy dialogues at district and national level to ensure the voices of Maasai girls reach the people who make decisions about their lives.
4,000+
Community Members Reached
20
major community events conducted
47%
support girls educated
25
strategic partnerships formed
IMPACT IN ACTION
Our Work on the Ground.
Every programme connects to real outcomes for real girls across Maasai communities in Tanzania. Here is a snapshot of what our work looks like in action.
Ester Mollel Passes Form Four
Ester Mollel from Magadini Village faced immediate forced marriage pressure after completing primary school. OMOM found her in 2022, secured her placement at Longido Samia Girls Secondary School and provided complete scholastic support. In 2025 Ester sat her Form Four national examinations and passed. She will join Form Five Advanced Level in 2026, becoming the first person in her entire family of sixteen to reach this milestone. Her story proves that one girl's education transforms an entire household.
33 Girls Across 26 Schools with Zero Dropouts
In 2025 OMOM secured placement for 33 high-risk Maasai girls across 26 partner government boarding schools in Manyara, Arusha and Kilimanjaro regions. Every single girl remained in school throughout the academic year. No dropout. No forced marriage. No FGM. A 100% retention rate achieved through monthly monitoring visits, welfare checks and community engagement.
523 Girls Trained Across 12 School Clubs
In 2025 Nganashehood trained 523 girls across 12 school clubs in partner government secondary schools. Through weekly mentorship sessions, leadership bootcamps and rights education, girls moved from silence to voice, from self-doubt to confidence and from invisibility to leadership.
Mothers Earn. Daughters Stay in School.
During the 2025 school holidays a Maasai girl faced severe family pressure to drop out of school for a marriage dowry. Her mother joined OMOM's artisan beading circle at Serian Homes, gained independent income through our Arusha safari tourism partnerships and paid off pressing family debts herself. Armed with her own earnings she legally vetoed the forced marriage arrangement.
One Father. Six Girls Protected.
During an Olosho Voices dialogue under a village tree in Manyara Region, an influential traditional Maasai father publicly declared that his daughter would never be married off. His stand led five other fathers to immediately sign community protection pledges for their own daughters. One man's courage protected six girls from forced marriage.
7,000+ People Reached Across Tanzania
Through our combined four-programme ecosystem OMOM reached over 7,000 people across Maasai communities in Tanzania in 2025. This includes 523 girls directly trained and benefited, 33 girls housed in safe sanctuaries, 4,344 parents and elders directly engaged through Olosho Voices dialogues and a growing online reach of over 200,000 people.
OUR PARTNERS
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