Oli Raison

I think if I could summarize it high level, I would say very strong sense of shared values.

Okay.

The values in the Sanburu community are very much around sharing of resources.

So just to give a little bit of context here, the communities that we work with are very marginalized.

very poor, actually.

They are very they're a long way from

Nairobi, they're underrepresented in Kenyan politics.

They are living in a very harsh environment.

We're talking about a semi-arid kind of desert.

We're talking about a livestock economy where their wealth is really dependent on the health of their livestock and that can be wiped out in a drought.

So life is very fragile and they can only really survive and thrive by depending on one another.

And in terms of their values, their values, people are grounded in the society's values from a very young age.

So if we could just focus on

the life's path of a young boy in the Samburu culture.

Once he gets to about the age of about 10 or 11, he will be assigned a mentor and a mentor is another man, typically from the generation above.

And that man will be responsible for schooling that boy on how to be a warrior.

And around the age of 13 or 14, that boy goes through a circumcision ceremony where he becomes a warrior.

And then for the next 15 years of his life, his sole purpose is to be of service to the community, okay?

So his job is to protect the tribe,

and do all of the kind of heavy lifting and really be at the disposal of any body elder.