Just'us Lekishon, Kenaya Kolong Parkepu, Sally Kenyon and Dr Laura Marshall-Andrews are walking 800 km to raise money for the Emarti Clinic in Kenya and the Kolong Education Centre in Lembapuli, Tanzania.

We are doing this in memory of: Benjamin Kipos, a young Maasia with great promise for the future, (pictured above) who died earlier this year from sepsis in Emarti; Kolong Parkepu Ngatee, a Maasai cheif who died a few months ago aged 95yrs after a long illness and Margaret Kenyon a Scottish teacher who devoted her life to children. Margie's Foundation is named after her.

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 complete the building of Kolong Education Centre in Lembapuli. The Education Centre will offer reading, writing, English, Maths and Business to those Maasai who have never had a formal education. it will also act as a community centre for meetings and place where the Mamas can meet to bead together to create and income for themselves. Please see margiesfoundation.co.uk

The walk will start in the Tanzanian village of Lembapuli, home to young Elder Kanaya Kolong Parkepu, the son of Kolong, and Sally Kenyon. We will walk 800km 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 learn from the Maasai and to share Maasai wisdom, culture and ancestral knowledge.

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

Money raised in the UK through this platform will be collected by Trust For African Schools and managed on the ground by Women in the Wild, a local organisation with good governance and accountability.