Dam Rehabilitation
OlKalou has produced some mighty successful career people who are very well connected and well traveled. Some of the second generation Nyandaruans who now own and run the…
Piped Water in OlKalou in 1970s
There was a time when Nyandarua was ahead of its time. I remember the early 1970s when we were small kids, there was piped water in our compound…
Spoilt Animals
Most of the animals that Nyandarua farmers owned were inherited from the British colonists who owned the land before them. The farmers purchased the animals through the Cooperative…
Mothers Managing OlKalou Farms
I consider myself a strong woman because I was raised by an even stronger woman, her five feet two inches height and no education to boast of not…
Classes by Shift
The children who pioneered Munyeki in 1970, had recently graduated from the nursery school which was housed at the Rangwero house, the same house where the Cooperative Society…
Nursery School: Nap Time
Our nursery school was a one room timber building at the edge of the compound that housed the Cooperative Society. Remember this was the former compound of the…