Our first Community
Conservation Library and Education Centre
Hats off to Kingori and the whole community for getting this
wonderful project off the ground so quickly: First Kingori came up with the
idea.... then he found us a wonderful building..
Next the community donated it to the cause of conservation
and education
Then everybody has
helped do the repairs, painting and making good..... as well as making an office for Kingori and the other
‘volunteer’ librarians.
Then the kids have come together to help us with the
wonderful art work (thank you Natalie and Celina for getting them organised!)
creating their own designs... and
gardening has already started...
Next Laikipia Wildlife Forum have stepped in to go to the
next stage.... shelving, desks, outdoor seating areas and fencing will soon be
in situ.
The first book loans have already been made. Anyone with any
spare books .. plus a way of getting them to Kimanjo (remember Kenya customs is
not donation friendly).. we have many hundreds of borrowers lined up. The mobile clinic will
assist us in sending book loans out to schools.
This has been such a fun project featuring everything that
is best about community work... grassroots inspiration, good partnerships and
plenty of involvement from so many people... we look forward to the ideas
burgeoning from here: we have a projector to hold community film screenings on
conservation and health issues, we have our conservation art day planned to
display the art work before it hits Nanyuki.... and, with a little solar power we can soon have
students and teachers working together in the evenings. The mothers have asked
for a literacy group. The possibilities are endless, and Tom’s political cafe
is not so far off the agenda now.....
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