Welcome to Mweep
MWEEP is a 501(c)3 based in Kitsap County, WA, that seeks to educate Maasai girls and women through cost-sharing scholarships and training programs. Funds help to offset the cost of Secondary School, Post Secondary, and Empowerment classes. MWEEP supports women who are working to start their own businesses and/or becoming community leaders. Whether a student or a budding entrepreneur, these determined ladies become independent, successful women.
Why Girls Education?
For cultural and financial reasons Maasai girls have little access to secondary education. As a result, they are often bartered for a dowry of cattle in an arranged marriage as young as age 12.
When they are able to attend secondary and post-secondary schools, they become agents of change for their family and community.
MWEEP seeks to create long-term change by empowering girls to achieve far beyond what otherwise would be impossible, thus equipping them to serve their community for the rest of their lives.
MWEEP TO DATE
From 2007-2018
There were 298 girls in secondary school and 113 young women in post-secondary
971 years of schooling
In 2019 we currently have 84 in secondary and 32 in post-secondary.
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