Meitamei Olol Dapash - Giraffe Heroes Kenya Awards 2014

IofC in Brief

Who we are: Initiatives of Change (IofC) is a world-wide movement of people of diverse cultures and backgrounds, who are committed to the transformation of society through changes in human motives and behaviour, starting with their own.

The visitors were welcomed at the Parliament of White Nile State with dancing by the Fellata community, who are of Nigerian Hausa origin

Purpose: We work to inspire, equip and connect people to address world needs, starting with themselves, in the areas of trustbuilding, ethical leadership and sustainable living.

Thursday, October 30, 2014

MEITAMEI OLOL DAPASH (NAROK)

Meitamei Olol Dapash has served his community, the Maasai people of East Africa, through the past 30 years. Basically, he has spent his entire adult life and promoting their human rights, education, and the environmental conservation of Maasailand.

In particular, Meitamei has been on the fore front in promoting the land rights of Maasai communities, the return of ancestral land taken under British colonization and not returned under independent Kenya. In 2010, he led 52 petitioners representing the Masaai community in filing a suit in Kenya Superior court to recover 30,000 acres of Mau Narok, land that was appropriated under British colonialism and continues to be occupied under independent Kenya. Meitamei Olol Dapash currently leads a broad based movement of Maasai people in this effort.

Meitamei has received death threats, been jailed many times, and lost colleagues to the struggle for Maasai human and civil rights.

Meitamai Olol Dapash is truly a Giraffe Hero!

Print page

Search form

IofC in Brief

You are here