MARTYN DAY (Bonus)

Our first goal is to make the authorities react by broadcasting and screening our documentary but we also would like to help the village directly.

During the shooting, we stayed in the Umoja campsite and we bought our meals from the women. We took in charge Rebecca’s participation to the Africities summit (in particular linking her with the NGO Huairou Commission). On the ground, we financed 8 kilos of bids to the Umoja women and 300 vote cards for the samburu women.

Organizing screenings, collecting donations, selling photos and handicraft from the village, we gave 2000 euros to the Umoja Uaso Women Group, that is to say the equivalent of 3 years salary to the Umoja teacher.

The main source of income of Umoja is tourism and the best way to support the village is to visit it. Umoja is located 380 km north from Nairobi, near the Samburu National Park. From Nairobi, it's a 4 hour drive journey to reach Isiolo, then 1 hour to get Archer’s Post from where you can go to Umoja by foot (500m).

If you want to make a donation to Umoja women, visit the Umoja Uaso Women Group website where you will find their bank details. Collected money allow the community to cover health and education costs (medicine, hospital, books, salary of the teachers).

Knowing the story of Umoja and spreading the word is highly important as the succes of the women comes through notoriety. Buying a simple DVD is already an action that benefits them.