Julianne and Kids

Julianne Huche Kisau is a 40-year-old Maasai woman. She has lived in the Losimingori village for the past 40 years, and water has always been a difficulty for them. Her prayer to God is to help them get resources that can help their livestock and farm. Like most of the villagers that we spoke to, she aspires to see her children well educated and leading a good life. She wants her daughter and son to be a doctor and an engineer respectively. Inspired by her dream, we drew her and her children on this canvas.

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.