'Traditionally our children use plants like tubers, roots or berries in their daily life. They feed on them while herding livestock, they make toys with them, and so on.

This knowledge slowly vanishes. That’s why it should be documented, written in form of easy pictorial books. It is a good idea to simplify the text of this first ORETETI documentation and to create books for children, with pictures and stories. So that they’ll be able to learn at school some of these useful plants. It will not be a technical book; it will be an interesting book, inviting young people to go deeper and deeper.

That living concept of understanding, simplified, I am sure it will go a long way.

Moreover through these books, young people will easily understand the need to preserve these plants or generally the environment; to preserve the cultural link between natural resources and the community, the nature and the community'

Charles Ole Saitabau, ethnobotanist, teacher

Order The Little Oreteti

This smaller book of 56 pages, beautifully illustrated and drawn from the big ORETETI document describes the 17 most important plants for the Maasai, or the ones they mostly use in their daily life, to feed, cure themselves and their animals, or for their rituals. It is meant for the Maasai youth and school children as a tool of transmission of an oral knowledge, which nowadays disappears so quickly that it might be soon forgotten. But it is also meant for all the people who would like to have a glimpse into the richness of the Maasai flora and culture.

Little Oreteti is for sale for €12,00 + shipping, and we can send the book anywhere in the world.
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