About the Film

Unbreakable Hope in The Maasai Mara explores the impact of educational and healthcare initiatives that changed – and continue to change – the challenging lives of tribal peoples in the Maasai Mara of Kenya. The 60-minute feature documentary focuses especially on the large Maasai communities and their traditions.

Female students of the WE-Charity sponsored high school and College describe the arduous struggle to escape the dangers of female genital mutilations and the practice of being forced into marriages at puberty.

The film demonstrates how education, and especially continuing education, empowers the young men, women and families who frequently face economic adversities in their rural communities. While celebrating the many positive aspects of Maasai tribal customs, the documentary juxtaposes the benefits of education as a most crucial contribution to an individual’s and a people's rise from poverty.

The film also illustrates how the WE Charity hospital delivers all aspects of pre-and post-natal care and offers free or low-cost healthcare to over thirty villages and communities in a vast region of the Maasai Mara – all to build and promote hope in a world that may seem hopeless to the eyes of people in the so-called developed world.

Ultimately, the documentary counters and opposes the denigratingly false and misconstrued statements that were aired in an episode of the Fifth Estate, the long-established program of the much-respected Canadian Broadcasting Corporation