Programs

MWCT runs three different programs: conservation, education, health.

In conservation the Trust:

• Runs a network of 60 game scouts, for antipoaching and wildlife/human beings conflicts monitoring and resolution;
• Manages a pioneer compensation program Simba Project - where livestock killed by any predator is compensated to the Maasai, if no predators are killed. Lions are an endangered species (there are more Polar Bears than lions!), and this program is one of our greatest successes;
• Monitors, through "Simba Scouts" (Maasai warriors tracking lions), the lion population, which has increased 3 folds since the compensation program started;
• Has set a network of conservancies, to protect in perpetuity land and wildlife;
• Has created a regional Conservation and Research Centre, where MWCT's headquarter is and where volunteers and researchers are based; and
• Is starting a regional research program, involving local and international universities.

In education the Trust:

• Supports 15 local primary schools;
• Employs nearly 50 local primary teachers;
• Runs, jointly with the Government, a primary school built by the Trust, where more than 700 pupils are enrolled;
• Builds schools;
• Runs a Gifted Pupils Program, where the 8 best Maasai students attend a private school- Kanzi Academy run by a Kenyan and a British teacher;
• Offers secondary level scholarships (more than 20 at the moment),
• Promotes the preservation of Maasai lore and culture, by employing Maasai elders to teach Maasai classes in all the Group Ranch schools, including Kanzi Academy;
• Is introducing partnerships with Yale and Harvard universities, for interns and research programs; and
• Runs a volunteer program, where teachers can come contributing to the Education projects of the Trust.

In Health the Trust:

• Employs an MD, to assist the entire 7,000 Maasai community;
• Supports 4 dispensaries in the 400 square mile reservation, employing nurses in all of them;
• Has provided a dispensary with running water (through a bore hole) and electricity (with solar system);
• Is building a central clinic to serve the entire reservation, with a maternity ward. Total value $250,000; and
• Runs a volunteer program, where nurses, doctors, dentists can come contributing to the Health projects of the Trust.

Field partners in MWCT projects are African Wildlife Foundation and Maasailand Preservation Trust.
Many organizations have supported our programs, among them are:
Cartier, Puma, EFCG, AECOM, RMJM, Yale University with interns programs, Partners In Health by providing us with free consultancies and sites visits to our Health programs; Tusk Trust,  Kenya Wildlife Service: both the Senior Warden of Tsavo and Amboseli National Parks are working hand in hand with MWCT.
David Sheldrick Trust, whose vet is assisting MWCT for rescuing wounded wildlife. Google has assisted MWCT in collecting high resolution imagery of the entire reservation, in order to collect information about Maasai villages, vegetation, roads, wetlands, cultivations, wildlife corridors. The project is ongoing.