iMaasai - Oloirien Maasai Community Project
CAUSE: Community Empowerment, Education, Other
CATEGORY: Film, Multimedia, Initiative, Photography, Video, Other
PROJECT DIRECTOR: Beatrice (Bibi)
Jordan
Empowering the Maasai with digital technology to claim, preserve, and share their ancestral medicinal plant knowledge by creating multimedia digital books and an online Maasai Digital Herbarium. Oloirien Maasai Community Project provides digital equipment, a solar generator, Internet Service and workshops, empowering the Maasai to claim, document, and share their rich ethnobotanical knowledge. The five visionary Maasai Elders who founded Oloirien received their medicinal plant expertise according to their family lineage, passed down through observation, experience, and cultural practice for generations. Today, digital technology makes it possible for them to preserve this wisdom on their own terms, in their own words.
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