Education:Now

The Wise Wall Project is an initiative of Project FUEL that aims to document, design and strengthen the wisdom of rural communities and marginalised villages using art and community outreach programmes. The arts lead the way to raise support for the challenges these villages face today like migration, quality education and access to basic amenities like water and roads.

In the third edition of the Wise Wall Project, we are collaborating with the culturally rich and one of the oldest communitys in the world, the Maasai community, in Arusha, Tanzania, in partnership with Vikram Solar Ltd., Vijana Inspiring Foundation, Lions Club of Dar es Salaam and Arusha City, and Google Arts and Culture. Along with building an on-ground community centre and museum for the community, we are bringing an exclusive insight into the life, lifestyle and learnings from this inspiring community.Over the past few decades, with the influence of technology, health interventions and interactions with people from different cultures, a lot of changes have been adapted to the Maasai society. Man-made crises like deforestation and climate change have also influenced these changes.

But it changed in the 1980s when Eduard Moringe Sokoine, a Maasai man, was elected as the Prime Minister of Tanzania. Seeing a Maasai in such a high position of leadership changed the perception of many community members. Over time, more Maasai children are now attending the school.