{"id":2564,"date":"2009-12-12T15:55:54","date_gmt":"2009-12-12T10:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/?p=2564"},"modified":"2014-12-31T15:25:18","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T09:55:18","slug":"drought-maisai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/2009\/2564\/","title":{"rendered":"Drought hit Maisai tribes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We met with three ecologists from the Natural Museum of Kenya on the Amrita Children\u2019s home Site.\u00a0 They surveyed the 11 acre plot and gave a lot of recommendations for the property.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2568\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2568\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2568\" title=\"watatoboma\" src=\"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2009\/12\/watatoboma.jpg\" alt=\"Amrita Children's home\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2009\/12\/watatoboma.jpg 450w, https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2009\/12\/watatoboma-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2568\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amrita Children&#039;s home<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At one point we spoke to them about the neighboring Maisai Tribe that is suffering from the drought.\u00a0\u00a0 One of the project officers said that a program to address the problem of drought with these semi nomadic cow keepers has been experimented with.\u00a0 They teach the tribes how to irrigate smaller plots of grass and then rotate the grazing based on their rotation of irrigating the grass plots.\u00a0 This would work for the tribe that lives near Amrita Children\u2019s Home, as they are close to Athi River.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2567\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2567\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2567\" title=\"masai2\" src=\"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2009\/12\/masai2.jpg\" alt=\"masai2\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2009\/12\/masai2.jpg 450w, https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2009\/12\/masai2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2567\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Masai tribes with cattle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Because the ecologists we worked\u00a0 with were from Kenya she said Athi River is out of their district, but she would see if there were local district workers that might send someone to educate the local Maisai Tribe about the rotating irrigation system.\u00a0 She also told me that in their past experience the tribes have not been that open to the change and won\u2019t do the work. But with Amma&#8217;s grace they might!<\/p>\n<p>Hanuman and Nikhila<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2566\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2566\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2566\" title=\"masai1\" src=\"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2009\/12\/masai1.jpg\" alt=\"masai1\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2009\/12\/masai1.jpg 450w, https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2009\/12\/masai1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2566\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Masai tribe man<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We met with three ecologists from the Natural Museum of Kenya on the Amrita Children\u2019s home Site.\u00a0 They surveyed the 11 acre plot and gave a lot of recommendations for the property. At one point we spoke to them about the neighboring Maisai Tribe that is suffering from the drought.\u00a0\u00a0 One of the project officers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}