Deb Rooney was referred to SFF by our board member - Jenna Arnold.
BEADS provides technical business assistance, start-up capital, school scholarships and  workshops for Maasai women and their daughters.
Successful businesses have enabled women to provide a better standard of living for themselves and their families. With financial security, women are respected leaders in their communities and, in turn, are better able to manage their resources and environment. These types of changes come slowly in a culture where women are still exchanged with a ''bride price'' (in cows or goats) paid to their fathers and live in traditional dung-hut villages without electricity or water.
One of the groups supported by the BEADS project is the Dupoto Women's Beading Group located in the village of Isinya, about 60 miles south of Nairobi.
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