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The first building of the Isineti Project, with its water tank, in Maasai land

Delegation Project · Kimana, Loitokitok · Kajiado County

Isineti Project

On Congregation land in the heart of Maasai territory: a work built around a group of about thirty Maasai women — water, farming, and an education meant to make them independent.

Where and why

Isineti stands on land of the Congregation in Kajiado, near Kimana in the Loitokitok area, towards the Kilimanjaro highlands and the edge of Amboseli. It has two goals, and they are meant to hold each other up: to serve the Maasai community, and to help sustain the works of the Delegation.

Its centre of gravity is a group of around thirty Maasai women. In a pastoralist society, a woman rarely owns the herd, rarely holds the money, and rarely decides. The project was built around them on purpose.

The first building was completed in May 2026. That is the honest measure of where this project stands: at the beginning.

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What is already real

The first building of the Isineti Project: stone base, timber roof, with the cultivated fields behind
The first building of the project, completed in May 2026 — and behind it, the land already under cultivation.

Water

The water trough of the Isineti Project at dusk, in the dry Maasai plain
The trough at the project’s own water point — for people and for livestock alike, in a plain that is dry for most of the year.

Free access to clean water, for people and for livestock. In a pastoralist land in a time of recurring drought, this is not a service among others. Water is life, work and dignity — and whoever controls it controls all three.

Agricultural training

Training for Maasai women and young people: kitchen gardens, water management, organic fertilisation. More than fifteen families have been trained so far, with SlovakAid and with the Orione Community Training Centre.

Rows of vegetables under drip irrigation on the Isineti land Maasai women gathered for a training day at Isineti A training session under the new shelter at Isineti Participants of the agricultural training at Isineti Women seated for the training under the timber roof at Isineti An instructor addressing the group at Isineti Certificates handed out at the end of a training course at Isineti

Basic economics and human development

Formation in the ordinary skills that decide whether a good harvest becomes a better life: how to count, how to price, how to save, how to plan for the next dry season.

Water is life, work and dignity.

Isineti Project

The roots: the Kilimanjaro farm

Isineti did not appear from nothing. Since 2021 the Delegation has worked the “Kilimanjaro farm”: about twenty acres of fertile volcanic soil, growing maize, beans, cabbages, onions, peppers and cassava, irrigated from a solar-powered borehole.

The harvest feeds the Orione Community Training Centre, and the surplus is sold at local markets. And Maasai women cultivate there — without having to migrate to find work, which is to say without their families being broken up first.

Isineti is the next chapter of that story: accompanying a proud pastoralist people, through drought that returns and returns, towards new sources of sustenance — not instead of their way of life, but alongside it.

The project at a glance

Location
Congregation land near Kimana, Loitokitok · Kajiado County
Began
Kilimanjaro farm from 2021 · first Isineti building completed May 2026
Partners
SlovakAid · Orione Community Training Centre
Works
Clean water access · agricultural training · formation in economics, health, rights and leadership for around thirty Maasai women

Photo gallery

The first building of the Isineti Project seen from the fields The building and the water tower at Isineti, with a sunflower in the foreground Rows of vegetables under drip irrigation on the Isineti land The cultivated fields of Isineti at sunset Kilimanjaro seen across the land at Isineti The first building of the Isineti Project, with the water tank behind The stone base and timber roof of the first Isineti building Two Maasai men in front of the building under construction at Isineti The roof timbers of the first Isineti building Beans growing on the Kilimanjaro farm Cultivated rows on the Kilimanjaro farm Working the irrigated rows on the farm A seedling protected by mulch on the farm at Isineti Newly planted ground at Isineti A Maasai elder in the fields at Isineti, with Kilimanjaro behind Three men on the land at Isineti Cattle on the land around Isineti Kilimanjaro seen from the Isineti land The Maasai landscape around the Isineti Project The Kilimanjaro farm, before and after cultivation

Support & contact

One building stands. The land, the water and the people are there. What happens next depends on friends who are willing to build with a project rather than after it.

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