The wellbeing of society is determined by nutritious food and clean water which promote good health, increase immunity, combat malnutrition, diseases, and reduce mortality rate especially among children. However, there are traditional practices prejudicial to the health of Maasai people as far as balanced diet and modern nutrition is concerned. Although livestock is the basis for their subsistence, they are mainly kept for prestigious purposes making raw milk a daily diet. Irregular rainfall pattern and the seasonal scarcity of surface water expose community to contaminated water. This scarcity coupled with inadequate of non-protein-calorie foods leads to malnutrition and contributes to high incidence of the following diseases: skin diseases (scabies and tropical ulcers), intestinal and blood parasites, respiratory diseases (pneumonia and bronchitis), eye diseases (trachoma and conjunctivitis), venereal diseases and diarrhea. Tuberculosis and other diseases like brucellosis are also transmitted through consuming raw and infected milk or blood. Community mainly rely on traditional herbs and medicines for treatment and the reality of them being sparsely populated  coupled with inadequacy  of health facilities has complicated the provision of health care thereby causing high maternal and mortality rates especially during emergencies.

MATRO is working towards promoting good healthcare and nutrition as a way of empowering the community to live a better life. We educate and sensitize community members on the need to abolish traditional practices prejudicial to the health of its people and encourage them to uphold modern strategies of preventing diseases such as proper hygiene and diversification of economic activities to promote balanced nutrition. Health facilities are very few in this area and as a way of enhancing the local health systems, we mobilize government and stakeholders to improve access to health care, build new health clinics and refurbish the existing ones as well as establishing mobile clinics which is in tandem with nomadic lifestyle.