Welcome / Välkommen / Karibu
Welcome / Välkommen / Karibu

Maasai Stakeholder Evaluations

The feedback below is anonymous evaluation data and comments submitted after the final dissemination events.

3) What, from your perspective, are the positive contributions of this Creation Care in Maasailand project?

 

  1. Documenting the Maasai traditional knowledge through the published and shared books.
  2. Availability of the teaching tool (book) for confirmation classes, lay-pastor trainees, and secondary education.
  3. Increased transmission of creation care lessons through online (YouTube).

 

  1. The project will help the Maasai to build resilience pertaining to climate change.
  2. The project will raise awareness on climate degradation, climate change, and the role of the society toward combating the challenges.
  3. The project will awaken all the environmental stakeholders toward taking necessary measures to cure our environment.

 

  1. It has been an awakening call, with an urgent need to reflect on creation care, focusing on Maasai values. This includes taking action towards creation care.
  2. The project may influence some reviews in educational lessons or our curriculum, integrating lessons on creation care from confirmation up to secondary schools.
  3. Means of communication (passing on the message) were wonderful. The video and song recordings in Maasai and Swahili targeted the right audience.

 

  1. Environmental conservation and restoration: The project can help protect natural ecosystems by promoting sustainable land management.
  2. Community empowerment and local ownership.

OVERVIEW

I teach Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and intercultural hermeneutics at Wartburg Theological Seminary, (on leave of absence) Dubuque, IA, USA, and VID Specialized University, Stavanger, Norway. Through VID, I am currently engaging a postdoctoral research project with the Maasai in Tanzania.