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We are a non-profit organization, seeking to serve nomadic girls and women in Kajiado County by addressing reproductive health, socio-economic as well as education challenges among nomadic girls and women through capacity building and empowerment.

The most powerful classrooms have no walls. 🔴Patinaai Osim is continuing its community dialogue sessions in Ilkelunyeti ...
24/04/2026

The most powerful classrooms have no walls. 🔴

Patinaai Osim is continuing its community dialogue sessions in Ilkelunyeti Village, Poka Kenyewa Ward, and the impact is visible.

Through our Life Skills and Values programme, community members are coming together to engage with the real experiences and challenges that shape their daily lives. Each session builds practical capacity in problem-solving, critical thinking, self-efficacy, and positive social interactions.

This is not theory. It is grounded, community-owned learning that meets people exactly where they are.

Because when communities are equipped with the right skills and values, they do not just survive their challenges. They lead through them.

Rooted to Rise. 🔴🔵

Grassroots nest for Innovations and Change - GRIC

We’re excited to be in Melbourne 🇦🇺 for Women Deliver ConferenceOur Founder, Sankori Semerian Official, will be speaking...
24/04/2026

We’re excited to be in Melbourne 🇦🇺 for Women Deliver Conference

Our Founder, Sankori Semerian Official, will be speaking at Open Ground, hosted by the Australian International Development Network, sharing insights on community-led development and inclusive early childhood education.

As we engage around Women Deliver, we’re especially keen to connect with partners, funders, and collaborators advancing gender equality through locally-led solutions.

📍 Boatbuilders Yard, South Wharf
🕝 Tuesday, 28 April at 2:30 PM
If you’re attending, we’d love to meet you—come say hello 👋🏾

In a moment when rights are under attack, change calls us here. The Women Deliver 2026 Conference will bring over 6,500 ...
21/04/2026

In a moment when rights are under attack, change calls us here. The Women Deliver 2026 Conference will bring over 6,500 advocates to Narrm (Melbourne), Australia, to strategise, organise, and build collective power across movements and regions.

Change is also calling from Kajiado County, Kenya. Semerian Sankori, Founder & Executive Director of Patinaai Osim Community Care Organisation, will stand in that room, rooted in the struggles and strength of Indigenous Maasai women and girls, and the communities who refuse to be left behind.
is more than a conference. It's a space of joy and resistance, and a collective act of defiance against the escalating threats to the rights of girls, women, and gender-diverse people worldwide.

🔔 Join us, 27–30 April 2026.

🌏✊ Change calls us here: to gather, to strategise, and to shift power.From 27–30 April 2026, over 6,500 advocates, leade...
14/04/2026

🌏✊ Change calls us here: to gather, to strategise, and to shift power.

From 27–30 April 2026, over 6,500 advocates, leaders, and movements will come together in Narrm (Melbourne), Australia, for the Women Deliver Conference 2026, regionally hosted by the Oceanic Pacific for the first time in Women Deliver's history, on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people of the Kulin Nation.

We are proud to be among them. Our Founder & Executive Director, Sankori Semerian Official, will represent Patinaai Osim at this global gathering, carrying the voices, experiences, and leadership of Indigenous Maasai women and girls in the fight for bodily autonomy, SRHR, and climate justice.

Across movements, oceans, and generations, we'll resist, reimagine, and rebuild toward a just, feminist future.

Patinaai Osim participated in a two-day Coordination Meeting convened by CLAN Network Kenya, bringing together Local a...
10/04/2026

Patinaai Osim participated in a two-day Coordination Meeting convened by CLAN Network Kenya, bringing together Local and Gender Implementing Partners from across the country.

This milestone marks a new partnership grant for Patinaai Osim under the Securing Registered Title to Our Lands (SRTLs) project, funded by The Tenure Facility through CLAN!, which is currently supporting 53 communities across 17 counties in Kenya.

Our Executive Director, Sankori Semerian Official , had the honour of signing the MoU on behalf of Patinaai Osim as a Gender Implementing Partner—reinforcing our commitment to integrating a gender lens in land tenure processes.

For Indigenous Maasai pastoralist communities in Kajiado, securing land rights goes beyond process it determines whether communities thrive or face displacement. Women and girls bear the greatest burden, and that is why we remain steadfast.

We appreciate CLAN! Network for convening this important strategic alignment meeting and for its continued commitment to coordination and accountability.

Happy Easter from the Patinaai Osim family. 🔴Easter reminds us that renewal is possible. That after the hardest seasons,...
05/04/2026

Happy Easter from the Patinaai Osim family. 🔴

Easter reminds us that renewal is possible. That after the hardest seasons, something new can rise.

We see that truth lived out every day in the pastoral communities of Kajiado. In women who rebuild after drought. In girls who return to school. In young people who choose to speak when silence would have been easier.

Rising is not always loud. Sometimes it is quiet, steady, and deeply rooted. And that is enough.

Wishing you and your loved ones a peaceful and hopeful Easter. May this season bring renewal to everything you are working towards.

Rooted to Rise. 🔴🔵

This holiday, our work does not stop. 🔴Patinaai Osim is rolling out the Girl Rising curriculum with adolescent boys and ...
03/04/2026

This holiday, our work does not stop. 🔴

Patinaai Osim is rolling out the Girl Rising curriculum with adolescent boys and girls from our partner schools and communities across our community

The Girl Rising curriculum uses the power of storytelling to build confidence, voice, and life skills in young people. It focuses on social-emotional learning, gender equity, and equipping adolescents with the knowledge and tools to understand their rights, challenge harmful norms, and advocate for themselves and others.

In pastoral communities like ours, conversations about puberty, healthy relationships, consent, and self-worth are rarely had. Yet these are the conversations that determine whether a girl stays in school, whether a boy becomes an ally, and whether a community moves forward or stays stuck.

We have reached 26 adolescents in our first session at Imbuko Primary School alone, with more partner schools and communities to follow.

We are training both boys and girls because lasting change happens when everyone is part of the conversation.

Rooted to Rise. 🔴🔵

Stronger together. 🤝The Patinaai Osim team joined Life Skills and Values Trainers of Trainers from our community at a Li...
30/03/2026

Stronger together. 🤝

The Patinaai Osim team joined Life Skills and Values Trainers of Trainers from our community at a Life Skills and Values training organised by our partners at Grassroots nest for Innovations and Change - GRIC, held at St Dominica in Nairobi.

This training was more than a workshop. It was an investment in people. Our TOTs returned home equipped with the knowledge, tools, and confidence to deliver Life Skills and Values programming directly within their communities in Kajiado County.

When we strengthen those closest to the community, the impact reaches further than any external programme ever could. That is the power of locally led, community-rooted development.

Thank you to Grassroots nest for Innovations and Change - GRIC for bringing partners together and for your continued commitment to building capacity where it matters most.

Together we rise. 🔴🔵

A girl's period should never decide her future. 🔴Every month, girls in pastoral communities across Kajiado, Kenya, face ...
28/03/2026

A girl's period should never decide her future. 🔴

Every month, girls in pastoral communities across Kajiado, Kenya, face a choice no child should have to make. Go to school and manage their period with no products, no private facilities, and no one to talk to. Or stay home.

Most stay home.

And when a girl misses school enough times, she stops going altogether. Not because she lacks ability. Not because she lacks ambition. But because a system that was never built with her in mind failed her at the most basic level.

That is the reality of period poverty in Indigenous pastoralist communities today. Menstruation is still whispered about, still shameful, still a reason girls fall behind in 2026.

At Patinaai Osim, we are changing that. One girl, one school, one community at a time.

May 28 is Menstrual Hygiene Day. Join us as we stand Together for a 🌍

🔴 May 28 is Menstrual Hygiene Day, and we're getting ready.This year's global theme is Together for a , and it couldn't...
27/03/2026

🔴 May 28 is Menstrual Hygiene Day, and we're getting ready.

This year's global theme is Together for a , and it couldn't be more relevant to the communities we work with in Kajiado, Kenya.

For many girls in pastoral communities, menstruation still means:
❌ Missing school
❌ Facing stigma and silence
❌ No access to products or safe facilities

At Patinaai Osim, SRHR has always been at the heart of what we do. We've reached 1,000+ girls with menstrual health support, because we believe every girl deserves to learn, grow, and thrive without her period standing in the way.

This May 28, join us as we stand together to break the silence. 💪

Some changes are best told in numbers. Others live in the quiet moment when a girl stands up to read aloud for the first...
24/03/2026

Some changes are best told in numbers. Others live in the quiet moment when a girl stands up to read aloud for the first time, when a mother turns a new skill into income, or when elders see children listening again to their stories.

Our 2025 Impact Report, Rooted to Rise, brings these moments together.

In 2025, 75% of learners in our programmes advanced at least one literacy level, more than 12,000 people gained access to clean water through five community boreholes, and women built savings groups that are now becoming their own local financial systems. 90% of youth in our cultural programmes reported feeling more pride in who they are and where they come from.

We are equally clear about what did not happen. There were no stand‑alone SRHR activities this year, not because SRHR matters less, but because we chose to strengthen the foundations that make it effective: girls staying in school, women with income, and communities that feel ownership.

If you care about what it looks like when Indigenous communities lead their own development, with data, story, and culture at the centre, we invite you to read, question, and share. This report belongs first to the communities we serve, and we are honoured to share it with you.

Read the full report: https://bit.ly/3NkjNw0

This is what water collection looks like in Kajiado County.Not a tap. Not a pipe. Donkeys, jerricans, and hours of a wom...
22/03/2026

This is what water collection looks like in Kajiado County.

Not a tap. Not a pipe. Donkeys, jerricans, and hours of a woman's day, quietly given, rarely counted, never questioned.

Today is 💧

Women and girls around the world spend 250 million hours collecting water every single day. Read that again. 250 million hours, not spent in school, not spent resting, not spent building a future. Spent walking.

In our Maasai community, we do not need a report to understand this. We have lived it.

When the wells run dry, it is not the boys who walk further. When the drought stretches into months, it is not the men lying awake counting how many jerricans are left. And when a family must choose between sending a daughter to school or sending her to fetch water, that choice follows her for the rest of her life.

This year's World Water Day theme is "Where Water Flows, Equality Grows."

We carry those words into the bomas of Kajiado. Into the classrooms we fight to keep our girls in. Into the water management committees, where we are now placing Maasai women, because the people who know the water best should be the ones deciding how it is managed.

The women in this photo are not victims.

They are carrying the weight of a system that was never built with them in mind.

We are building something different.

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Monday 09:00 - 17:00
Tuesday 08:00 - 17:00
Wednesday 08:00 - 17:00
Thursday 08:00 - 17:00
Friday 08:00 - 17:00

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