About Us

When our founder Ester Washington asked why so many children in Kenya were not in school, she was told that the parents were not able to buy the required uniforms. Ester replied, “we will open a school, and it will be A ‘Beacon of Hope’ that sits on a hill.”

Education changes everything. The learner is able to speak the national languages of English and Kiswahili,  which allows a young boy or girl to work in hotels or stores, tourist industry, etc. Envision every child having the opportunity to go to school, even if their parents are not able to buy the school uniform.  

When a Maasai girl or boy is able to go to school it changes everything; the school becomes a safe haven.

Often at the tender young age of 10 or 11, the Maasai Girl is circumcised and married to an elder. The young boy is destined to the nomadic life of herding the cattle & protecting them from death. The cattle have been the focus of the nomadic lifestyles for years, and is all that is known to some. Globalization & Global Warming are both having a great impact on the Maasai’s ways of life, the droughts & starvation that are cyclic in nature have a great impact on the lives of both cattle and humans.

Over the past 30 years, we have witnessed the evolving changes in the culture, and how tribes that did not value education are changing. Demarcation of the land has changed the way the nomadic tribe is able to roam and graze the cattle, electricity is coming to an area that has been in darkness, along with highways, roads and rails. The indigenous way of life is becoming more difficult to sustain and the need for education is critical to improving the quality of life.