About

Oltiyani Is one small Masai village located in Amboseli, Kenya. The overall community there is made up of approximately 100 such settlements each with about 100 or so people living in each; men, women and children. The Masai of Oltiyani are pastoral in that their existence depends on cattle, some goats and the odd camel, about 50 animals for each village. This community has no well but they have identified a suitable site; and that's where you come in.

Oltiyani, and in fact the entire community, is served by a school called Osiligi Lo Nkera, which translates from Kiswahili to English as 'The Best Of The Best'.

Below you can find images taken at Oltiyani in December 2025.

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How Can You Help?

As of now, The Oltiyani Village is looking for help with their school and for funding for a well. On this page you will find a Just Giving link to a fundraiser page setup for this cause.

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Facts of the Matter

Lake Amboseli is known as the Dead Lake because it is almost permanently dry. Each Village has a herd of animals reaching numbers up to 50, Most being cows, goats, camels and donkeys

To fetch water, they have a round trip of 24 Kilometers to the nearest source which is Ol Tukai Swamp. This is coordinated and done by a Donkey Train. The water they draw from the ground is not clean water.

Osiligi Lo Nkera school has almost 500 pupils and 11 teachers but they are desperate for ongoing resources to fund books, pens, uniforms and teaching aids.

They need approximately KSh 5.5 m or £23,000 in our money to sink their well. The services of an engineer would also be helpful.

Just Giving Page