Conservation Through Community

The Maa Trust partners with Maasai landowners who have joined wildlife conservancies — agreements that set aside community land for wildlife in exchange for safari tourism income and conservation support. These conservancies have expanded habitat for the Serengeti-Mara migration and created buffer zones around the national reserve. The Maa Trust is the community development arm of this model — ensuring that the people who give up land for conservation receive education, healthcare, and economic opportunity in return.

Education, Health & Women’s Empowerment

In education, The Maa Trust has reached 14,806 pupils, funds scholarships, operates the Ngila ECDE and Primary School, and has graduated 672 girls through its Alternative Rites of Passage program — keeping girls in school rather than undergoing female genital mutilation. In health, it has reached 42,093 people through outreach, runs the CHP Talek Health Centre, delivers maternal Mama Kits, and provides water and sanitation infrastructure across the Mara. In enterprise, Maa Beadwork sells traditional Maasai crafts to lodges and visitors, while Maa Bees runs women’s-group-owned beehives whose honey is sold throughout the conservancies.

How Your Deeper Africa Safari Supports The Maa Trust

Three Deeper Africa Kenya itineraries support The Maa Trust: Classic Kenya, Deeper Kenya, and Primates & Savanna. When you book a Deeper Africa Maasai Mara community safari, your journey funds the schools, health clinics, women’s enterprises, and the Alternative Rites of Passage program that keeps Maasai girls in school. The wildlife you come to see and the communities that live alongside it are not separate stories. The Maa Trust is what connects them.