Maasai Rescue Ministries is a grassroots Maasai-created and led ministry. The official name in Tanzania is Esipata Eselenkei, which means The Rights of a Girl. This NGO was founded by a board of Maasai Christians and is directed by Pastor Mark Murenja. Outside of Tanzania it is known as Maasai Rescue Ministries represented by Brenda Anderson, a career missionary linked with the Primitive Methodist Church in the USA and Asociación El Buen Samaritano in Spain and Europe. The ministry exists to rescue girls in our tribe from FGM and forced early marriage. Our desire is to give them a chance to mature and have options in life, ESPECIALLY that of introducing them to Jesus Christ and knowing the purpose and dignity that he created them to have as women.

When a Maasai girl is rescued from forced early marriage, she is taken to the rescue center - a place of refuge where she is cared for, where she can play, eat, rest, and learn. The cost each year to take care of one girl at the rescue center is $600 - this covers tuition, transportation, and clothing. Our current project is hoping to cover the cost for 20 Maasai girls.

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Saving our Maasai girls