MISSION:
Osiligi Le Maa is
a non-profit community based organization that is designed to create diverse
awareness for Kenyan illiterate women in rural areas, rescue and educate orphan
and poor children, eliminate critical problems such as oppression and child neglect and ensure healthy living and economic sustainability for
all.
OSLMCBO is aiming
to empower the poor in Lenkism area and its surrounding Amboseli through
trainings, seminars and education. OSLMCBO is also dedicated to helping provide access to clean water and create a healthy and
sustainable economic environment through job creation and marketing
support, without neglecting the values, customs and beliefs of these rural communities.
VISION:
Osiligi Le Maa holds the belief that empowered women are the key to successful and sustainable development
GOALS:
1.) To unite and strengthen the women's movement, helping to create gender equality and women's empowerment while enhancing the abilities of rural Kenyan women so that they can create measurable and sustainable results throughout their lives.
2.) To seek out and serve the most vulnerable people that have been affected by crisis.
3.) To enhance accountability, dignity and integrity.
4.) To ensure that people and communities in rural areas are empowered to develop skills that meet immediate needs while creating sustainable solutions.
Founder's Bio
Peter Sironka is the founder of OLMCBO and is from the Esiteti community and
studied at Mt. Kenya University. Peter joined James ole Kamete as one of the founders of
Esiteti School where he taught as the Head-teacher for eight years. Peter
contributed much to the growth of Esiteti School and Students sponsorship and clean water programs in
Esiteti.
Peter now aims
to start his own project with a passion to make other areas competitive in the current world, thus he has focused on the areas around Amboseli such as Lenkism without
forgetting his home community of Esiteti in order to show appreciation and respect.
Through the inspiration and experience of others Peter has learned much and is now capable of starting his own project. With great hope and expectations Peter aims to ensure that no orphan, poor and maasai
women is oppressed while honoring and respecting the local culture. All are equal and
therefore deserve a life of dignity and respect. Ziglar said, ”I can get all what I want in my life after helping the needy people get what they want in theirs"
Contact
Email address; psmasaa@yahoo.com/lemaaosiligi@gmail.com/sempeyoi@gmail.com
Phone: +254-727-690-624/+254-722-907-700
Address: OSILIGI
LE MAA CBO,
P.O. Box 399-90132
Sultan Hamud
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ReplyDeleteThis research focuses on the ways of empowering women in rural areas in that women are especially disadvantaged in Kenya; they have little access to secondary education. In this research it is evident of the self-problems experienced by the women in the rural areas, which include, Gender roles in rural areas still adhere to traditional and cultural practices. High female illiteracy rates compound the problem of gender imbalance. Women are still largely excluded from decision-making within the home and community, and are unrepresented in leadership roles. As a result, they are often bartered for a dowry of cattle in an arranged marriage as young as age of 12 inter-alia. In addition to that, Women are vulnerable to male aggression and violence neither do they have land rights or rights of inheritance. The researcher helps to identify and examine the impacts of empowering women. The research problem is examined and analyze in study of literature review; it presents the selection of supportive theories on the practical development of empowering women in the communities.
ReplyDeleteThe study also shows that deployments of groups can improve their knowledge sharing on the ways of empowering women in the society and in organizations. However, some problems occurred, Learning new methods in empowering women takes efforts and time for investment, training and motivation. This therefore, the research methodologies to be used by the researcher to conduct this research are, interviews, questionnaires using some of the affected victims, and the involved bodies that are in support like, The NGOs, CBOs and Government bodies.
The findings indicate that, ways of women empowerment are Access to micro finance, Improving illiteracy levels among poor women in urban and rural areas and Enlightening self-help groups that provide organizations convenient problem solutions for the accomplishment of organizational tasks. However, dynamics and features of women groups have created challenges to the collaboration effectiveness. The literature also on empowering has grown for over ten years in the investigation of different aspect of women work in organizations. The study researches also reviewed the empowering women and management in organization, and the effectiveness of women rights in the communities as the critical ways in women empowerment.
1.2. Problem Statement.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the OSLMCBO chairman Peter S ole Masaa's research on May-August,
The women are considered objects and devalued culturally, exist a need for blaming and mutilate them. This greatly stops their physical and mental development, freedom of expression and just gets them in a place of manipulation and domination far from achieving real economic empowerment. It has been a culture in rural that the woman has no say both in the community and the family. Most of the men dominate everything and believe that a woman can’t do what a man can do. These marginalized communities violate the right of the woman where the women are obsessed by this witch that they can’t do and therefore accept with all circumstances in order not ‘violate’ the culture.
The socio-economic disadvantage that women face make them especially vulnerable to Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) especially HIV, illustrated by example, by their exposure to the high-risk sexual behavior of their partners. For widows, the symptoms of infection from Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) are often hidden, making them more difficult to diagnose than men, and the health consequences are often greater, including increased risk of infertility and entopic pregnancy. The risk of transmission from new HIV from infected men to women is also greater than from women to men, and many women are powerless to take steps to protect themselves.
There is need to reduce the number of early marriages which is very high in the rural, increase girl child education support and create women economic groups that make them to contribute to their family daily bread, reduce the number of new infections through decreasing the risk of infection among the general population and decreasing high risk behaviors and cultures which make particular groups being disadvantaged among others that has been a problem in the rural. The prevention strategy that will be devolved should be informed by the achievement, weaknesses and lessons learnt from previous preventions programs of Kenya National HIV/AIDS Strategies Plan (KNASP). In this regard, new evidence-based, approaches to prevention of HIV infection, HIV status, reproductive and sexual health, gender based violence, among widows will continue to be sought to ensure that stakeholders effectively responses to change in the epidemic among the general population and the key vulnerable group including widows and their clients, a contribution to the reason of this research. Therefore, the study will seek to narrow down means of women empowerment in the society.
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Kakenya Ntaiya was engaged at 5-years-old, her family members regularly whispering in her ear, “Your husband just passed by.” This was the traditional pat... See More
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Kakenya Ntaiya was engaged at 5-years-old, her family members regularly whispering in her ear, “Your husband just passed by.” This was the traditional path that unfolded before girls in the Maasai village in Kenya where Ntaiya grew up.
Kakenya Ntaiya: A girl who demanded school “In Maasai culture, the boys are brought up to be warriors, the girls are brought up to be mothers,” says Ntaiya in today’s incredible talk, given at TEDxMidAtlantic. “Everything I had to do from that moment was to prepare me to be the perfect woman by age 12.”
But Ntaiya had a different dream — to be a teacher. And so she offered her father a trade: she would go through with the traditional ceremony that marked her rite of passage into womanhood — which included clitoral circumcision — if he allowed her to go back to school and continue her education.
“The day before the ceremony, we were dancing, having excitement — we did not sleep,” says Ntaiya, remembering the week-long lead-up. But she also recalls the painful circumcision itself and the long healing process. “Three weeks later, I was healed and was back in high school. I was more determined to be a teacher now so that I could make a difference.”
Eventually, Ntaiya she got a scholarship to study at Randolph Macon College in the United States and convinced her village elders to allow her to go.
“My father is not the only father I have. Everybody who is my dad’s age in the community is my father, by default, and they dictate what my future is,” she explains. “When the men heard that a woman had gotten an opportunity to go to school, they said, ‘This should have gone to a boy. We can’t do this.’”
Ntaiya has great reverence for her Maasai culture — she opens her talk saying, “You know what’s cool? I’m one of them.” To hear how she used her culture’s traditions to get the men of her village to support her education and how — upon returning to the village after graduate school — she was able to gain their support for founding a school for girls, listen to this powerful talk.
As she says, “I learned that ceremony I went through is called female genital mutilation. I learned that it was against the law in Kenya. I learned that I did not have to trade part of my body to get an education … As we speak right now, 125 girls will never be mutilated. 125 girls will not be married when they are 12-years-old. 125 girls are creating and achieving their dreams.”