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Educational

SCHOOL GROUPS

There are special programmes for school groups. Below is a sample of a day visit, but other options are available. Wamῦciĩ draws on many years of teaching experience to find the appropriate programme for your group.

 

  • 10/11a.m. Arrival. Welcome and snack.
  • 11.30 – 12noon. Games
  • 12 – 1p.m. Storytelling with music, singing and traditional dance.
  • 1 – 1.30. Lunch
  • 1.30 – 2p.m. tour of farm and garden.
  • 2 – 2.30/3p.m. Closing stories and music.

 

Hiking option for children age 6 and above.

The group can start just outside Ngong town, at the Forestry Commission Office, where they pick up a guard, and hike along the top to come down at the picnic site. This takes about two hours. There is an additional cost for entry to the Ngong Hills and the guard. Groups who have done this find it a very satisfactory combination of hiking and picnic. The bus comes directly to the site.

CLASSES FOR CHILDREN

On Saturdays and in the school holidays, Wamucii is offering classes in art, music (singing and recorder playing); handwork (knitting and crotchet). These will all be accompanied by movement activities and storytelling. Contact her for further details.

WORKSHOPS FOR ALL AGES

  • FOR CHILDREN. To develop creativity, a talent for acting and competency in the English language.
  • FOR TEACHERS. To guide them in creating, telling and using stories in the classroom.
  • FOR EVERYONE. Stories can enlighten a workshop on any topic, at any stage in the day.

SUSTAINABLE FARMING

ENVIRONMENTAL

SUSTAINABLE FARMING

Kikwata Picnic Site is part of a small mixed organic farm, i.e. no chemicals or artificial fertilisers are used. After a noisy greeting from the geese at the gate, you are free to tour the farm. Apart from the regular maize, beans, potatoes and sukuma you will find in any shamba in Highland Kenya, she grows other vegetables: carrots, leeks, French beans, capsicum, courgettes etc; and a variety of herbs. She keeps the soil rich with regular composting and mulching.

There are also a few sheep and kienyeji chicken to provide manure.
The picnic site is made attractive with flowers and mixed exotic and indigenous trees. Various fruit trees are now coming into maturity.
Vegetables and fruits are on sale in season. Also a few plants and trees for planting.

Birdwatching

Wamucii encourages birds on the site with a birdbath and regular feeding. There are other places in the neighbourhood for further birdwatching possibilities.
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