Samburu Project

The Samburu Project was founded in the Fall of 2005 by Kristen Kosinski, a former television executive at Paramount Pictures.

Along with respected Samburu elder, Mama Musa, she was inspired to start the organization as a vehicle for women's empowerment.

In February 2016, former board chair Linda Hooper assumed directorship, and the office was relocated to its current location in the historic Helms Bakery Complex in Culver City.

With 137 wells providing clean water, The Samburu Project has expanded its program to support women with empowerment workshops, teenage girls with menstrual hygiene products and reproductive health information, and gardening workshops as a way to expand food security, food diversity, and income generation.

The Los Angeles Times featured the work of the Samburu Project in an article by Iris Schneider in November 2016 that chronicled the daily life of a village called Ntilal.