Dalmas Tiampati is a remarkable man. Born Maasai in the Kajaido County of Kenya, Dalmas was reared as a Maasai herder.

After leaving his culture behind he achieved an Honours Degree and found a job in a University. But leaving your roots behind is not so easy, and Dalmas dreamt of returning as a herder to his people and culture. After working hard and taking a loan he managed to build a herd of 127 cows to return and live a simple but fulfilled life as a Maasai pastoralist.

But following a run of dry years in 2013 disaster struck and a drought of extreme severity killed 90% of the communities cattle - on which they rely entirely for nourishment. Children and elderly died of thirst and malnutrition and Dalmas used up all his money to help his people buy food.

With only 14 cows left he is rebuilding his life but had to return to work in the City, He had created a charity and wants to make his community more resilient to climate change and drought by teaching the techniques of regenerative pastoralism.

See these videos to explain how desert can be reversed using holistic planned grazing. http://savory.global/institute.

Stephen and I want to help him build a Centre for Regenerative Pastoralism, where experts can come and teach the Maasai how to manage their land to regenerate their grasslands.

Regenerating grasslands will allow them to feed themselves and sequesters significant volumes of carbon out of the atmosphere into the soil helping the whole world reduce GHG.

We need a four wheel drive car to get about the vast terrain, a classroom, and some basic accommodation. We will also need a small area of land to demonstrate the techniques of holistic planned grazing on a small scale and for breeding indigenous species of sheep and cattle.
The Centre will become self-funding.Read the full story https://www.paleoandprimalliving.com/blog/maasai-primal/