- Homeland
- The Mau forest and the eastern Mau escarpment.
- Counties
- Nakuru · Narok · Kericho
- Tongue
- Ogiek, an old forest tongue within the Kalenjin family.
- Livelihood
- Honey, forest fruits, and light hillside farming.
The Ogiek are the honey people of the Mau, the oldest forest community of the Kalenjin nation and one of the last surviving forest peoples of East Africa.
Their livelihood is bound to the trees. Their knowledge of the Mau, of its seasons, of its bees, and of its medicinal plants, is one of the great inheritances of the wider Kalenjin nation.
The Foundation stands with the Ogiek in the long work of protecting the Mau and the way of life it makes possible.
