John Hockenberry
The Secret Is Out in Frankfurt: An Oliveseed Grows in Africa
Oliveseed Kenya meets the Frankfurt International Book Fair! Guest author John Hockenberry weaves a colorful story about our work in Africa.
Strengthening literacy & knowledge
Strengthening literacy & knowledge
Strengthening literacy & knowledge
Encouraging a lifelong love of learning
Meet the Board
Meet the Board
Meet the Board
MARA CONSERVATION
encouraging empathy for other life
MLP Team in Morocco
Advisors in Morocco
It's been an Amazing Year!
Our mission is to uplift communities for generations through equal access to high-quality education, sustainable development, and responsible stewardship of the natural world. We see these values as interconnected and equally necessary to create a peaceful, prosperous, and sustainable future for people and the planet.
OLIVESEED KENYA TRUST
In the Maasai Mara, we develop libraries, labs, and other resources at rural schools. Soon to come, a Women's Work Center to build skills and micro-enterprise; and a sustainability-focused Community Center bringing clean water, the first public library, and a place for literacy, business training, and locally led conservation.
MOROCCO LIBRARY PROJECT
In Morocco, we have supported English learners in over 40 Amazigh communities with school and class libraries tailored to their interests, in close collaboration with teachers. Our program has evolved to a nationwide short story competition for teens and young adults and, soon to come, an indigenous Amazigh story project.
Dispatches from the Maasai Mara, Fall 2022
Aitong Primary School Library, a Dream Come True
We renovated a neglected building in the center of Aitong Primary's campus and converted it to a learning center with 2000 books, digital resources, and conservation materials for 1100 students.
The Manyatta Project
We built the first library and study center inside a Maasai manyatta (village). This humble little library in the manyatta of Ololchura brings books, portable lights, filtered water, and a well-lit space powered by solar to children right outside their doorsteps. There is no other power or light in these manyattas. This is just a start, a pilot project that will launch an ecosystem of ideas at the village level.
Literacy & Light
Thank you to our solar partners BRIGHT and MPOWERD, and journalist John Hockenberry, for these stories on our programs uniting literacy and light.
