We are walking 770 km to raise money for the Emarti Clinic in Kenya and Lembapuli and Loosikito schools in Tanzania. We are doing this in memory of Benjamin Kipos who died earlier this year from sepsis in Emarti, and in memory of Margaret Kenyon a Scottish teacher who devoted her life to children.

The Emarti clinic serves a community of mainly Maasai in the Greater Mara area. The Clinic has had very little support for many years and is in a poor state of repair. There is very intermittent water supply and poor electricity supply. Mothers often give birth using the light of a mobile phone. There is scant equipment and there has been no maintenance of the building for many years.

We are planning to use $60,000 to fund a reliable clean water and power supply to the clinic as well as essential equipment and renovations to the building.

We have also committed $45,000 to a mobile diagnostic unit which will have X-Ray, USS, MRI and basic laboratory facilities. For details please see our Instagram @emartihealthcentre

We have pledged $15,000 to the Lembapuli and Loosikito Schools. This will help refurbish the existing classrooms and provide essential supplies for both schools. Please see margiesfoundation.co.uk

The walk will start in the Tanzanian village of Lembapuli, home to young Elder Kanaya Kolong Parkepu and Sally Kenyon. We will walk 770km through the Maasai streams up to the Kenyan village of Emarti, home to Just’us Lekishon and Dr Laura Marshall-Andrews.

During our walk, we aim to highlight some of the issues facing the Maasai and share Maasai wisdom, culture and ancestral knowledge.

Your support will go a long way to change many lives across this region.

Money raised through this platform will be managed by Wild Philanthropy a well-respected charity which has ties within the Greater Maasai Mara area and has 501C3 status in the USA.