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Welcome to our place – Where Nature, Community, and Learning Come Alive! 🌍
Join us at the Tree Museum in Naromoru, at the foot of Mt. Kenya, and be part of Kenya’s growing movement for environmental restoration and education! We are a social enterprise restoring ecosystems through tree planting, school programs, and community training in sustainable living.
What do we do?
🌱 We work mainly in public primary schools on Environmental education through setting up kitchen gardens
🌱We support establishing Miyawaki Forests
🌾 Practicing regenerative agriculture and kitchen gardening
🐝 We do beekeeping and lots of composting
🏡 Helping in sustainable cob building and eco-living design
🌳 Supporting biodiversity mapping and the creation of mini-forests
We host schools, teachers, students, travelers, and nature lovers who want to reconnect with the earth while making a real impact. You’ll work alongside our local team, enjoy organic farm-to-table meals, meet local communities, and even explore Mt. Kenya’s trails and rivers on your days off!
If you believe in sustainability, cultural exchange, and leaving the planet better than you found it
📍 Located in Naromoru, Nyeri County – 3 hours from Nairobi.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Charity Work
Art Projects
Help with Eco Projects
Teaching
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Farmstay help
Hospitality/Tourism
Help with Computers/ Internet
Interests
Culture
Videography
Technology
Sustainability
Self development
Farming
Charity work
Writing
Languages
Art & design
Architecture
DIY & crafts
Cooking & food
Carpentry
Music
Plant care
Photography
Gardening
Books
Fitness
Yoga / Wellness
Outdoor activities
Nature
Mountain
Hiking
Cycling
Camping
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Connect with the host family
How to cook local cuisines and indigenous herbs
Farm and homestead visits to community farmers
Community tree planting activities and engagements
Local market tours and village tours
Nature and forest tours close to the Museum
National park tour and game reserve
Language exchange between host and Workawayers
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
We would like help with our Sustainable Community Projects focused on regenerative agriculture:
Teachers:
Who can work with the team on our school program. We offer environmental education to students in grade 4-5-6-7-8 i.e ages 10-14 and thereafter engage them to setup a kitchen garden, agroforestry and also plant indigenous native species. We also want to go a step further to teach on biodiversity and in the field learning experiences that are fun and exciting.
Creatives:
We would like to improve the design and content of our environmental education booklet to make it fun and full of activities.
Scientists/Environmental/Sustainability Specialists:
We need help to breakdown scientific content in a simple way to the visitors who come to the Museum. At the Museum we have 152 indigenous tree species and plants that we showcase as well as herbs. We would like to share more about this and its importance.
Skills:
We are looking at someone to help us learn carpentry and woodwork targeting local youth and school going children learn key life lessons.
Photographers:
We are privileged to have 25 birds in our Museum and lots of pollinators, insects and bugs of all kinds. We invite a photographer who is good in birding and more specifically macrophotography to help map the small world around us. We would want to safeguard the tiny world for these small insects by coming up with a simple macrophotography adventure course for visitors who come to our place every year.
Eco Tourism:
We are based at the foot of Mt.Kenya which is surrounded by rivers, lakes, bike paths, hike paths and lots of outdoor experiences. We believe this is one of the things we can explore for our visitors around the Mountain to package as a sustainable income generating activity. We welcome expertise in this area to build a program that can help us create jobs in the community but also ensure people care for the environment. We specifically love hiking, photography, and Mountain biking.
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Kikuyu: Fluent
Swahili (Kiswahili): FluentThis host offers a language exchange
We are interested to learn French, Luo, Maasai, Dutch, Japanese and Chinese (Mandarin).
Accommodation
We offer a 20ft container and earth built house located at the Miti Museum. There are 2 outdoor hot showers and a toilet. The place is secure and runs 100% on renewable energy. For food you will have access to the kitchen garden to harvest food and for additional foodstuffs there's a local kiosk and market available. The accommodations comes with clean beddings. A washing machine is available for your laundry.
What else ...
We live in a quiet serene environment and loud music is not allowed for us and for the bees. We also have kids and school children who visit often and we do not allow taking of drugs of any form/alcohol/smoking etc around them.
We have a smart casual dress code for community outreach activities and for schools as well.
Transport is mainly through Boda Boda as we call it or motor bike. For further distances to town we use a Matatu (mini-bus).
Time off:
- There are many nature trails, rivers, conservancies and outdoor activities around us that one can visit.
- We also have a basic Mountain bike available for use for riding around the nature trails.
- There are natural waterfalls and bird walks close to where we live
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
A good working schedule that accommodates the host and the workaway needs to be discussed before commitment. The hours of work around helping us should be clearly stated to accommodate the main activities that need to be covered during the stay.
Space for parking camper vans
We have sufficient parking and camping site. The facilities offered are two outdoor hot showers and a toilet. There's also a grill, fireplace and a water tank outside.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
My animals / pets
Sheep
Chicken
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