After a successful pilot year in hospitality and culinary arts, 30 graduating seniors will join our hospitality and culinary arts program. We have seen how quickly students learn, and we expect some of them to be ready for safari lodge internships by July!
English fluency is essential for success in working in lodges and opening countless doors to diverse jobs in Kenya. English is the most powerful national language in the country but spoken well only by the privileged. In Rombo, the majority of the youth speak no language fluently. The English, Swahili, and Maa (the Maasai language) they use are all broken.
Comfort speaking English to international tourists will give a decisive advantage to our hospitality graduates. We are planning to connect student-to-student language partners over multiple one-to-three-week programs. Other programs will be open to anyone. Let me know if you are interested.
CA, will visit us in Rombo for three weeks to engage in student leadership training and English language instruction.
a way for children and youth in the USA can learn about and help in Africa by doing a “a-thon” with their friends or teammates to support a student.
To accommodate growing number of students.
Welcoming our videographer back to Rombo, we aim to produce regular, engaging, and educational content to raise awareness of our work and invite the world to Rombo.
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Our team of six instructors has worked diligently to prepare our students to succeed in the safari hospitality industry. We have worked thoughtfully and patiently to help them learn manners of service and food prep entirely unfamiliar to our students who live in rural homesteads (bomas). By mid-December we have placed all our hospitality student in internships in local lodges. |
Before their internship placements, our vocational training students are taken to a nearby safari lodge to prepare them for what they will see: indoor toilets, showers, and all the elegance and facilities found in a lodge. Remember, most of these students come from homes without electricity or running water, floors are dirt or cement, and food is cooked on wood in a hut.
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Thanks to a grant from Rotary of San Diego, we have installed Starlink internet in our office. This high-speed and unlimited internet allows our IT team to work on videos and research and our students to view videos for training; it will also allow for English language partners in 2025!! |
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After conversations with the Colin Davies Secondary School principal and teachers, the arguments based on shaming and verbal and physical violence, plus the removal of students from school due to damage or incorrect socks, were received. Teachers agreed that the emotional and academic cost was too great to continue the sock policy. |
Pillar of Maasai Development (PMD) Partnership In Kenya
The Maasai herders of Eastern Africa are possibly the most famous tribe in Africa. The Maasai of Kajado, Kenya, in Mt. Kilimanjaro's eastern shadow, lost the majority of their grazing lands and watering holes to the Tsavo Game Reserves. In the 1990s, they were expelled from these lands. Insufficient land led to overgrazing and this community's tumble into poverty. In 2003 ADEA was introduced to this community, and our partnership began.
2003 - ADEA's director, Douglas, introduced to the Maasai community of Tipape Loomu
2006 – Established Lemong'o Primary School
2008 – Established Esukuta Primary School
2009 – Supported Emergency school meal program during 2008-2009 drought (95% of cattle lost)
2012 – Ornaments for Hope women's beadwork initiative
2020 – COVID-19 Lockdown Emergency Food Distribution Program
2020 – Teacher Development Program
2020 – Food Security Maasai Small Scale Farming initiative launched.
2021 – COVID-19 Lockdown and Drought Relief Emergency Food
