Day 01
Meet Kikuyu Grandmothers and Experience Sustainable Village Life
- Meet your tour guide and drive to Kikuyu village on the outskirts of Nairobi, where Kenyan grandmothers are often responsible for raising their grandchildren and other family members when parents can no longer care for them. Sometimes, up to 20 family members live in a grandmother's one-room corrugated iron home, and the financial constraints are extremely challenging.
- See the pig-farming small-business program through which the grandmothers earn a sustainable source of income. At the same time, the biogas system creates energy from waste to power their homes, meaning the family no longer has to cut down trees for cooking and heating.
- Meet the community's warm and welcoming grandmothers, join in the joyful singing and dancing over a cup of local tea, and help them cook a lunch of beans and ugali (a maize flour dish eaten across East Africa), or learn how to make chapati (soft layered bread).
- Hear the grandmothers narrate their powerful stories about how the program has helped them run a sustainable business that keeps their families together, and learn how resilient people can be. The future of the grandmothers is as bright as their engaging personalities.
