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Outcomes

Group 1

  1. cow fattening
    1. buy cows when theyre really cheap, in a specific season
    2. invest in feed, and fatten the cow, over the next 3 to 6 months
    3. sell the cow during the holiday season when theyre more expensive.
    4. a cow that typically is purchased for 500,000 can be sold for 800,000 and cover the cost of the feed for the cow entirely, plus some profit.
  2. starting group serving, and empowering by giving them loans (microloans)
  3. empowering them by quality seeds
    • for cows, goats, sheep and crops
  4. having milk processing plant (milk)
  5. cowskin processing plant for leather processing
  6. space where cows and goats can be treated (mobile veterinary clinic)

Group 2

  1. Supported on the issue of keeping livestock (cows, goats, etc.)
    • can help start a milk processing industry
    • provide milk and meat
    • can provide skins
    • skins can be for shoes
    • shoe factory
    • fertilizer from manure
  2. chicken (hens)
    • provides, eggs, fertilizer, and meat
  3. renewable energy (solar power)
    1. stop cutting trees
    2. possible to use gas or solar power
  4. farming
    1. grasses (pastures)
    2. teach how to plant grass for cows
    3. corn
    4. soybeans
  5. small groups for women and men
    1. get loans from each other
    2. for livestock fattening
    3. start different small businesses in nanja market or elsewhere
  6. Start a small garden
    1. garden for greens
    2. sell for money
  7. Hospital
    1. it can help with providing healthcare for the whole family

Group 3

  1. Supporting financial group
    1. to get loans for running small businesses
  2. Factories
    1. factories that process milks that are viable products from milk
      1. yogurt, cheese, etc
      2. women and men can earn money selling their milk or working in the factory
    2. factory for processing skins
      1. for belts, shoes
    3. factory for processing fertilizers
      1. useful to our farms
    4. meat factories
  3. Alternative sources of energy to combat climate changes
    1. wind, solar and other sources
    2. biogas extraction
    3. biosoil. Need instruction on how to extract biogas from plant waste.
    4. wind power mill
  4. supporting farms program
    1. give appropriate seeds for the Maasai to plant appropriate for the climate.

Group 4

  1. Empowered to create a group
    1. group loans
  2. Milk processing factory
  3. improving the breeding for cows, goats
    1. high quality seeds for crops
  4. education in new skills
    1. be able to earn money without just tending to livestock
    2. entrepeneurships
  5. want to be empowered to have a grinding machine for turning corn into flour

Group 5

  1. Tourism, hiking experience, 3 hours in the life of the Maasai.
    1. tourism money makes it back to community members
    2. pay hiking guides, dancers, and food preparation
  2. Asset-based loans for individuals
    1. solar, seeds, chickens, fertilizers
    2. asset based, better to keep track of, less likely to be misused
  3. Pay it forward: those who recieved water tanks can help neighbors afford tanks that they havent recieved yet.
  4. milk cooperative
    1. milk factory for processing milk.
    2. cheese, yogurt, etc.

Prioritization Votes

  1. Group Loans: 18/20
  2. Milk processing: 19/20
  3. Livestock Fattening: 20/20
  4. Farming: 15/20
  5. Hiking: 20/20

Notes on Milk Process

Jennie Says I dont see if we can be able to get enough people to supply milk to the factory if they have it. Maybe during the rainy season, its easy to get milk, but during the dry season, theres no milk, and it wouldnt work!

Other guy says a few months ago, there was a demonstration of women in one of the villages, and they demanded a milk processing unit, or factory, theres a lot of other things you can do, and that can employ 1000, 2000 maasai women.

Another Guy Says He wanted to add the importance of milk processing, having that something like milk processing unit, it can even give us men confidence that our women, our wives can generate a stable income.

We need to focus on milk processing, because the lowest income members of the community are women, meaning that this process would provide so much more access for the community.

Notes on Cow Fattening

  1. buy cows when theyre really cheap, in a specific season
  2. invest in feed, and fatten the cow, over the next 3 to 6 months
  3. sell the cow during the holiday season when theyre more expensive.
  4. a cow that typically is purchased for 500,000 can be sold for 800,000 and cover the cost of the feed for the cow entirely, plus some profit.
  5. cows are sold in the city to butchershops, not to other maasai

Notes on Farming

Initially we said, just say something, or just mention or discuss some of the ideas that help the entire community. Creating groups for loans, are helping us for livestock for fattening, if you wanna do farming with high quality seeds, loans are important throughout. lets stay focused on loans or seed production or something else, or cows for fattening, then we better stay focused. Cuz once you have a group.

for instance if theres 5,000,000 Tshs as a group, than any member of the group can access those funds for purchasing anything, be it seeds, or a cow or equipment?

Risk Assessment

Group 1: Group Loans

Investment Return Risks
1,000,000: Group Loans

For cow fattenting, if provided 20 cows, they can buy the 20 cows with 16,000,00 Tshs but after 6 months, they can sell these cows and return 20 million, so 4 million in returns after 1
for milk, we dont know the costs refridgeration and processing

Group 2: Cow Fattening

Investment Return Risks
Livestock fattening:

initial investment of
25,000,000 Tshs or more

50 x 800,000 per cow for purchasing purchase

= 40,000,000 Tshs		 return 2.5M every 6 months

50 x 1,000,000 =

50,000,000 revenue		 cow might die, not common but might happen

sometimes the cow can become weak because of disease or something like that

thats all

Group 3: Maasai Hike

Investment Return Risks
Group Investment
for instance, a group of 5 people, will be given 10,000,000



for instance, one person can use 2m Tshs to buy 3 calfs, and in this amount can be

for each of those calves, after 12 months, you can sell them for 1.2 million tshs		 will be required per person to return 9% interest, so 180k shillings

Group 4: Milk Processing

its not very different from the previous group and previous group discussed. Maybe the profit for them will be for 12 months. this 50 millions can produce 3 millions, another thing is milk processing, theyve got an intial investment, which is cows, whoch makes it

Investment Return Risks