Neighbors In Maasailand

Our Community Listener Nadine lives and works in Arusha, Tanzania, literally on the other side of the planet from our home in Los Angeles. She’s lived there for years in fact. Spending her time creating music and making films with local Tanzanians, including dozens of the Maasai people.

During one of her most recent trips to Simanjiro, East Africa, Nadine brought along a little camera, and for the first time, she asked some of her closest Maasai friends about their hopes.

Education. Healthy families. Change to our community. Food. Laughter. Music.

Simple, universal hopes that we hear over and over again—but given such new meaning when we hear them coming from the lips of the Maasai.

Click here to see all of our stories from the Maasai to date.

Nadine met her Maasai friends years ago, and she was immediately struck by their songs. Songs of joy, songs of hope, and songs of new life. She shares their incredible, inspiring, and life-changing stories—and her own story of hope and transformation—in her photobook, En-kátá: A Time for Singing.

60% of the profits from the sale of this book will be used to build a school for the children of Maasailand in Tanzania. For the first time, thanks to you and others like you, these children will have access to quality education. It’s a big step forward, and it’s not being imposed from the outside – the school is being built and run by the Maasai themselves.

We hope you enjoy the stories of this week. We hope the Maasai change you, lift you up, and you, too, can hear their singing.