ELAND's educational goals extend beyond school sponsoship to a number of other educational and awareness-building programs. In addition to educational programs, ELAND is involved in poverty reduction and economic empowerment programs.

Educational awareness and sponsorship programs seek to:

• Support primary school and high school sponsorship
• Create college funds for those who qualify
• Create awareness of the importance of basic education for all

Child rescue and retention programs seek to:

• Rescue girls from female genital mutilation and early forced marriages
• Rescue boys and girls from the child labor force
• Rescue orphans and child parents at risk of being abused

Health care and health education programs seek to:

• Increase understanding of transmission, prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS and other STIs among the Maasai people
• Create awareness of the prevention and treatment of communicable diseases
• Build and improve health facilities in Maasai rural areas, facilitating the training and equipment of health personnel among the Maasai
• Increase the knowledge and benefits of family planning
• Raise awareness and sensitize the community regarding the health risk of female genital mutilation

Program to conserve and preserve the Maasai indigenous knowledge/culture and improve natural resource management seeks to:

• Educate the Maasai youth and the world on the importance of the Maasai indigenous knowledge and heritage (through documentation, story telling, cultural festivals, and cultural exchange programs)
• Educate the Maasai people, the pastoralist, and the rest of the world on the importance of sound environmental conservation
• Create awareness of the threat facing wildlife and support the conservation of the same through international volunteering and documenting the endangered species of the savanna grassland
• Advocate for culturally sensitive development projects and to influence policy development in the local and regional levels of leadership

Poverty reduction and economic empowerment programs seek to:

• Develop the human resources of the Maasai community through career skills development
• Increase economic diversity by improving and supporting income generating activities with emphasis on women-and youth-owned and operated businesses
• Create, imporve and support the production and marketing of Maasai artifacts and livestock products
• Identify opportunities for fair trade of crafts
• Drill wells for schools and communities

ELAND Maasai Women Project

Women in Kenya have limited economic option available to them. Maasai women struggle to sustain their families by selling firewood, milk, beadwork and charcoal. Alternative production modes are minimal. Capital and human resources that are needed to spur other production avenues are scarce.

ELAND Maasai Women support themselves through the sale of beadwork. Eland women work together to eradicate poverty and educate their children. Proceeds from the sale of beadwork help to cover school fees, text books expenses and provides needed food. Maasai women have maintained their art work for centuries.

The Maasai women have been the preservers, the guardians and the protectors of the culture and traditions. They are the professors of the Maasai language and make sure it is passed to future generations. These illiterate women use their only valuable skills to sustain themselves economically.

The money from the sales is extremely valuable to the community. Empowerment of women helps to change perceptions of gender roles in the community. By earning money themselves, the ELAND Maasai women raise their status in their families and communities.