Masai Woman Builds Beautiful Off-Grid Homestead in Kenya 

I have worked with her in Kajiado West. She is result oriented and very passionate about every work she puts her hands on. Very articulate and persuasive grass root mobilizer. She is also a seasoned Voter Educator. She deserves kudos for the transformative agenda she has initiated in her backyard. That makeshift gazebo...thumbs up!.

Someone needs to say that as much as the place is dry, the vegetation is green. Proud of our Maasai girl from Narok, Kenya 🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪.

How inspiring! That's a face of Africa we don't see very much. A beautiful and inspiring face. Gratitude and love to this happy, clever, sustainable, modern, nature friendly community for showing us the way. One way among others but for sure one of the best.

What an amazing woman! Her tiny off-grid home looks so inviting and comfortable! Her concern for the environment, support and activities for gender rights and girls' education makes her wonderful role model for girls and women alike to follow in her footsteps.

What an intelligent and insightful woman. So uplifting to see her returning to her village to share her education and perspective with the others -- and exciting that they are open to the learning she has to share! This gives us hope.

I met this brilliant lady 6 years ago during the AHAIC Conference I must say she is driven, amazing and passionate. Keep soaring higher Selina

She is living the sustainable dream!! What's with the thumbs down!!?? Bravo to her initiatives and sharing her knowledge with the community.

This Masai lady is truly amazing!!! What a beautiful garden and village!!!

This is really amazing! How fitting for a Maasai woman to talk to the world about sustainable, environmentally responsible living! For centuries Maasai women used to be the builders of dwellings in their communities and the resulting homesteads were so environment-friendly that when they'd break camp and relocate you could easily tell where the manyatta (homesteads) were because the grass was greener, and vegetation more luxuriant at those spots for years, and that was the only footprint they left! Sadly, no one even remembers that anymore! Good job! Ashe oleng' Selina! Unawakilisha. Tunajuvunia!

I watched this twice! This is how sustainable living is done...adapting to the needs and culture of a community.

This has got to be the most positive clip I've seen in my life! I am a German that grew up in South Africa and returned to Germany as an adult. I've seen so much hardship and burgeoning concerning the black Continent that it hurts the heart. And now this genuine positive result of an educated individual that has made such a difference for her community, that it puts me to tears thinking: "I've been part of so many projects in my youth helping to even just equip a rural village with running water by damming up an uphill ravine in a mountainous region (Valley of the thousand hills in Kwazulu Natal), laying a pipe and fitting a couple of taps downhill. We were always awarded with a festive gratuitous ceremony, but I always thought that we didn't really make a difference since that was that. We never gave these villages KNOWLEDGE. This lady brought knowledge to her community. That's the difference! Knowledge is power. I am so utterly moved by this clip and so genuinely happy to for once see someone make a difference - a big difference! Thumbs up in happy tears!!!! All my love for this lady!!!

So many layers to this woman's story. I love the more self-sustaining environment she has created along with the really cool living spaces contained therein. Environmentally friendly, beneficial to all.

She's amazing and I love the way she speaks. It is proven that when you educate women, it lifts up the entire community. She is really wonderful.

May the Creator of all things keep her safe, healthy, and strong for a long time..

Its was a great idea to show this,she's very genuine,eloquent,humble and smart,I wish her and her family good health and peace

Instant crush on all of it!!! The place, the plants, the works, the ideas, the community and the wonderful lady, of course... ;-)

This is so beautiful and so is she. Why would anyone ever give this a thumbs down. There really are some hateful people in the world.

What a lovely colourful homestead. Talented lady. I wish her well with her projects.

This is a beautiful country and community. Your garden is amazing! You too are very beautiful! Thanks for sharing your life and talent with the garden with us 🇺🇸😊

Congratulations 🎉 on being a home owner. Your homestead is absolutely beautiful. How wonderful that you decided to do something positive for your community.

Proud of our Massai tribe they're pride of East Africa, their culture is intact. God bless Africa and the whole 🌍(Humans)

I was here on 28th September. Absolutely beautiful. Exactly as you see it and more is coming. Selina is very calm and humble and beautiful. Loads of work they have put in. It's my new getaway!!

Masai people and their culture is amazing! Grounded and peaceful, living in concert with nature.

Beautiful to see what you have achieved and inspire other people to learn. This is one of the faces of Africa the world needs to see.

Watching this brought tears in my eyes. I live in Eastern-Europe, very different history, very different culture, yet, we have the same dreams and hopes for the future. Such a beautiful place and such a beautiful person! I wish you all the best!!

Shouting with love and respect from the Bronx, New York City area! Seeing this brings tears of joy to my eyes, I'm so excited for her and her community! May she and her community, continue to flourish with long life and good health! Ashe O!!! As an African from the Americas, I would love to replicate something like this in the Dominican Republic. Ashe!!!

Very informative, sustainable, off grid community. I feel bad about the amount of pollution that has caused the climate change and devastating problems. This video is HOPE. Thanks Jennifer USA

This is so wonderful! I traveled to Kenya to the Mara village and was made an honorary member. It was such an honor! I absolutely love the Masai women, they are extra ordinary and do so much! My wife, had she been born in Africa would no doubt be a Masai woman as she has the same qualities! So very exciting to see this!

I’m in love with this woman and this place. My Africa is full of potential…thank you for being such a guiding light. Sustainable living, self reliance….no handouts, no aid.

She is so beautiful and intelligent, so happy she is using what she learned to help her people and also it’s nice to see that it did not change who she is.

This is the future of planet earth! I am thrilled beyond words to see this happening in so many places on our buautiful planet. I live very close the the Gulf of Mexico in Mississippi USA🇺🇸 I have turned the entire small town back yard into a dense food forest with many of the same plants I see in your food forest. This system is regenerative, and is the only way I can see humans being able to go forward and survive. Blessings to you for all your great work. May these efforts spread and multiply for your community and many communities across all lands 🙏🙏🙏

Truly inspiring and uplifting! Thanks Selina for showing what one can do in times of trouble and make things so bountiful and beautiful in the process! Thanks!

That's an extraordinary achievement.

I love this she needs her own youtube channel. I would love to see more of het life and learn from her.

She is phenomenal! Congratulations! This is so beautiful to see.Thank You and Deep Bow!💯❣

Lived in America for 22yrs,and this is the life I've been craving for ever since I left Africa. The sense of peace and happiness is irreplaceable.

That is impressive I have to say. I really like how the water tower was erected with bedrooms. Well done!

It's always nice to see young people being so forward thinking with an eye on where we need to be, not where marketers tell us we need to be.

Great project! My heart swelled with joy and pride watching this video. Interestingly enough, I hope and pray this becomes inspirational for people not only throughout Africa but in the West Indies as well. Great way to take our lives back! Love it!

Amazing! I definitely want to visit Kenya 🇰🇪 soon and if possible, visit this place. Much love and admiration from Ghana 🇬🇭.

I visited Masai Manyatta many years ago and I can honestly say I never expected a Masai woman to take on this way of life. It’s a fantastic project taken on by a very capable woman that hopefully will give the Masai another way to take care of themselves growing their food.

Bravo. I visited the Maasai in Tanzania several years ago, and was amazed how well they were coping with very limited resources. Selina Nkolle is a living example of this. Bravo.

I'm African and this is a wonderful, exceptionally neat piece of paradise. Kudos, Selina. You make your community proud.

I loved your opening sentence: ''Hello I'm a Masai woman''. Hello Selina lovely video. You have an amazing off -grid homestead. I particularly liked your tower rooms. Beautiful.

This kind of homestead built in such a short time, that must be really to motivating for the local people to see it bring results right away. Great work, just sharing seeds and saplings can help a lot, even if they don't copy all of it! I admire Selina Nkoile's drive.

A beautiful and useful concept made real! Just amazing. The presenter’s enthusiasm is apparent and I’m excited for her to have a developing area like that! A model the rest of the world could emulate!

I love what she is doing and what she is aiming at achieving. I can’t wait to visit the place next time I travel to Kenya.

This was so pleasing to watch... I'd love to go visit and meditate on the roof of the tower... the view at sunrise across that landscape must be amazing.

It`s rare to find such an exquisite mind, when everyone is thinking about how to make money, you stayed true to the course which is conservation. May God Bless you

This is awesome. This place is beautiful and has everything to uplift her community. She is truly an activist.

Such a beautiful place. Very nicely done. I don’t know why we all don’t strive for this. Well done!

You shine so brightly! How beautiful is your system in design and execution. You are at the leading edge of humanity’s future, once again in harmony.

Beautiful. I love the farm and everything she has done with it. I love how she talks about not having utility bills or rent, which motivates people on every continent. I also love her clothes but most of all she is a beautiful inspiration keeping traditions alive while blending with modern life.

Fantastic, you are an amazing, beautiful, and intelligent woman. Your home and property is absolutely beautiful. The fact that you are teaching people to be self sustainable is very good. I wish you much HAPPINESS and GOOD HEALTH.

What a brilliant and talented woman, helping her community! More like her please?

Amazing! I'm Kenyan so this is literally in my back yard. Makes me feel like paying them a visit. Very inspirational!

Where is part 2? 😅 I was so drawn I didn't notice it ending. It's encouraging to know that she did all that in a year, I'm still struggling with my urban homestead 🤭

Beautiful!! Inspired to getting out of the city and into homesteading. I’m certain it is not easy but certainly rewarding.

damn that place is beautiful.. its almost unbelevable how incredible everything there is... the garden, and plants.. the buildings, everything's so perfect and awesome.. reminds me of my grandparents house on the farm in colombia south america

Wow this is wonderful. I would love to visit you one day and learn more. I am inspired! Thank you for sharing. Watching from Germany

1000 Blessings to this woman. I hope she has a long, fulfilling and loving life. P.s. I like how she blended traditional and modern clothing

Awesome 😊 I respect her and her vision so much.👏🏽 May she and her community continue to prosper. This was great to see. Thank you for posting.

This is amazing! I bet that tower is a nice place to get away from the mosquitoes in the evening! Their whole community will benefit from this! I hope more farms like this are able to be built in their community!

I've lived in Kenya for a few years now, I'm only finding out about so many of these people and places through your videos. Thank you for supporting and encouraging them❤️❤️

What a beautiful homestead, garden, lady and don’t you just love her outfits!

Gosh, the colours! So vibrant! Especially the clothes contrasting to her skin colour

AS a Kenyan AM BLOWN AWAY!!!. I hv NEVER felt so inadequate. This lady is on a whole other level, mentally! wow!!! Am just speechless.

Wow! This was really, really nice! They are very blessed!

SOOOOO IMPRESSIVE- would love to provide support if needed to get more families following this path!

She is incredible, the whole world needs more women like this.

Absolutely amazing 4 something minute video. I love what they have done with the water irrigation system and the spare room and watch tower. Loved it. Thank you. Peace

Oh my goodness! I love it. I am originally from Trinidad now living in the US and I can see where some of our foods came from like cassava, pigeon peas etc. this is such a blessing to live how God originally intended for us to be.🙏🏽❤️

I like the Idea that she return the energy back to her community after the family spent their energy for her Education. ,Most of us young people we run to the city and keep on faking life and wast time. After I realize that I went back to my village I am a #Forest Farmer.. My farm contain,Trees ,Fruits,Coffee, Vanilla,Banana,Herbs and Green vegetable, I am a Vanilla expert, we also use Art, & music to inspire youth to get back to farming... (Art,Music and Farming).

Thank you for sharing and I love your vision. Happy to learn about food and community.

Was für eine taffe, moderne Frau. Das nenne ich Zukunftsvision. Bravo. Durchdacht von Anfang bis Ende.

Mzuri sana Selina. Hiyo ni kazi ya kushangaza!

That water tower with a Room is dope.

Beautiful! That´s how you can do it. A very good example with beautifully made comfy buildings. Love that gazebo and the colorfull design and Selina´s positive spirit! Keep going this way!

Great to see this, thanks for putting this out for us to see & learn from also here in Bay area SF

Absolutely wonderful. This makes me feel so happy, just watching it. Thank you ❤️

Just amazing . Indeed it can be done ✔ this is a great demonstration rural kenya communities can thrive

You can see in her eyes that she has a vision for this place, good Luck Selina

I must search for her now cause that video was too short. She is doing great work!! 👏🏾

Lovely, stunning lady and property. I pray her government protects her and allows her to prosper and regenerate her community.

I am Kenyan living in Austria and i can't wait to come back home and live with nature away from city life.Your homestead looks beautiful.

Just so amazing that this video resonates with so many of you! If you feel like joining on a longer tour of Selina's homestead, head over to my Patreon page where I just uploaded the UNCUT version of this video. It'll show more details and also allow you to get to know Selina a bit better! I really appreciate your support as I'd like to make many more of these kind of videos more to inspire people to choose sustainable ways of living! www.patreon.com/GrowingSmall

I can’t even wait to see the whole video to comment. All is Breathtakingly beautiful

This is simply incredible and so very African in every way. I wish someone would do a longer video about her and her homesteading life. Better yet a series.

What an uplifting story. I just hope this wonderful lady will teach her people some of what she has learned and teach them how to build their own beautiful homes. Blessing to the masi people!

Such a wonderful surrounding and wonderful lady! I have recently discovered this channel and absolutely adore it! So much to learn and know here.. and most of all, to feel joy of watching such way of life, watching people so happy and content and so one with nature.. it's my getaway to watch these programmes from busy city life..

Great, I wish there were many more people like you. You are a great person. Greetings from Denmark.

Living off-grid is my dream I'm proud of her and proud to claim her as a fellow Kenyan.

Encouraging and motivating!!! Wish she can even be aired by local channels for people to see her star and encourage the youths especially

You have built a beautiful working community. All of your hard work has definitely paid off. I love to see how other people live around the world.

Excellent. Excellent. Love to see this wonderful evolution in leveraging best practices in sustainability while preserving core Massai culture, community, family and lineage.

Very talented woman , I love how she made it both functional and artistic

Wonderful wonderful keep keeping things African .... you are the future!

Amazing, great work Selina and family! May many community members be inspired by your sustainable living, food production and care for the environment.

This is by far the best off grid home I've seen. Wowzers!

Wow what an amazing woman!!!! Forward thinking in every way, and totally self sufficient, with the grace to enhance others lives too!! Love her beautyfull.home & innovative ideas as well as the lovely bright Massai dress attire. So great to see someone who is proud of her heritage & striving to maintain it. Blessings from S.A.