Another Maaisai story

September 9, 2009

May we continue to learn more from them than vice versa . . . .

Seven years ago, Carmen Agra Deedy stumbled upon a front-page story in The New York Times that she couldn’t shake from her mind.

The story told of a peaceful Maasai tribe in the village of Enoosaen in a far corner of Kenya, and a most unusual gift this village had just bestowed upon the United States: 14 cows.

“I couldn’t stop thinking of this beautiful story,” said Deedy, a resident of Avondale Estates and a popular children’s author and storyteller. “I was captivated by its compassion, its generosity and sensitivity.”

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