Easter Safari to Tsavo West, Lakes Jipe & Chala

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Easter Safari – Tsavo West and Lakes Jipe and Chala
18-21 April, 2014
This very exciting trip will cover Tsavo West, Lakes Jipe and Chala, Taveta and possiblyLoitokitok. The weekend will be spent in the remote south west corner of Tsavo West. This is also the area where most of the fighting between the British and Germans in the First World War took place. Grogan of the ‘Cape-to-Cairo’ fame owned extensive estates here.
We shall stay at Ziwani tented camp. Located on a 30,000 acre farm on the edge of Tsavo West, it is built next to a secluded dam on the Tsavo River and has a beautiful view of the peaks of Kilimanjaro. You can see crocodile and hippo in the dam and the area is famous for its birdlife. The tents are spacious, most meals are served outdoors and the food is good. Sitting by the log fire in the evening you see the dam and Mt Kilimanjaro.
Programme
Friday 18 April- Depart Nairobi at 6.30am. Enter Tsavo West through MtitoAndei gate. Spend the whole day in the park, visit Mzima Springs and climb a small volcano if there is time.
Saturday 19 April- Drive to Lake Jipe. The lake has hippo and a lot of bird species. Explore this very remote corner ofTsavo West which has a lot of game. Picnic lunch at the lake. We shall explore the historic town of Taveta, visit the British War cemetery. A possible visit to Grogan’s castle (there will be a small charge for this). In the evening there will be a 40 minute talk on Grogan.
Sunday 20 April- Visit mysterious Lake Chala on the Kenya – Tanzania border. A brief tour of Ziwani farm. A lot of the machinery on the farm is still from Grogan’s time.
Monday 21 April- Depart for Nairobi, possibly via Loitokitok.
Cost: 24,300 pp sharing
Included: 3 days FB
Not included: transport and park entry. Park entry will be needed for 2 days only. Carry your smartcard if you have one. You can load it at MtitoAndei gate. You can also get a temporary card there.
Recommended reading: Edward Paice ‘Lost Lion of Empire’
M.G. Vassanji ‘The Book of Secrets’
Book and pay now. Because of Easter there is great demand for places and I shall not be able to hold the rooms indefinitely. If you wish to stay an extra night it can be arranged.

Contact: Narinder Heyer – 0721 – 718 590 or narinder.heyer@gmail.com

Announcement of KMS ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING and tour of the new JOY ADAMSON EXHIBITION

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Announcement of KMS ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
and tour of the new JOY ADAMSON EXHIBITION
Wednesday 23 APRIL 2014
from HONORARY SECRETARY, DR. MARLA STONE

You are kindly asked to attend the Annual General Meeting of the Kenya Museum Society Wednesday, 23 April, at 6:15 pm in the Louis Leakey Auditorium. Wine, juice and bitings will be provided from 5:00 pm. Park in the upper parking lot next to the Louis Leakey Auditorium.
There is a special opportunity for you at 5:30 in the Museum. KMS has worked with the Nairobi National Museum to revive what was a very popular anchor exhibition for the museum in the past, the Joy Adamson Exhibition. KMS has funded the project and worked hand in hand with the Exhibitions Department to develop a refreshingly new presentation of the colorful and intriguing illustrations by Adamson that capture and preserve the cultural and natural heritage of Kenya. Fifty pieces have been selected for the first year of the exhibition and another fifty will be substituted in the second year to keep the exhibition fresh. A sample of 6 of the peoples illiustrations have been selected for a post card set to be sold in the KMS Shop and other NMK museums.
Work is ongoing, but we want to give KMS members an opportunity to be the first to visit the exhibition in its nearly-finished stage. That opportunity will be just prior to the AGM, from 5:30-6:10. Please bring your KMS membership card for free entry to the Museum. The exhibition is on the second floor above the Hall of Kenya. At 6:10 sharp we will proceed to the Louis Leakey Auditorium for the AGM.
If you want to nominate officers or other Council members, you are encouraged to contact the KMS office by email or phone. Any member who wishes to submit a resolution at the Annual General Meeting must do so by sending it in writing to the Secretary, Dr. Marla Stone, via the KMS email (info@kenyamuseumsociety.org). Self nominations are welcome, but must be submitted in writing and seconded by another KMS member.
Please confirm your attendance on or before Wednesday, 16th April by email (info@kenyamuseumsociety.org) or phone (020 3743808, 0724 255299, or wireless 020 2339158).
If your membership has lapsed or will soon lapse you may renew prior to the beginning of the meeting. Though all categories of members are encouraged to attend, only paid-up members, exclusive of student members, visitor members, NMK special category members, and KMS staff, will be able to vote on any issues.

The agenda for the AGM will be as follows:
1. Opening of Meeting
2. Approval of Minutes of 2013 AGM
3. Chairperson’s Report
4. Treasurer’s Report
5. New Business
a. Election of officers and other Council members
b. Appointment of auditor
c. Additional new business
d. Revision of corporate membership charges
6. Adjournment

A constitutional change is proposed regarding the membership fee for corporate members. The proposal, which will be voted on in the AGM, is to change the cost of one-year corporate membership to Ksh 6,000 with 8 membership cards from the current rate of Ksh 15,000 with 8 membership cards.
Park in the upper parking lot near the Louis Leakey Auditorium and walk around to the main entrance.

KMS Day Outing – Heshima Kenya, Karen

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Day Outing – Heshima Kenya, Karen
Thursday 3 April 2014
9.30 am – 12.30 pm
Heshima means “dignity” in Swahili. Heshima was started with the vision to meet the needs of these hidden children. They provide breakfast and lunch, basic educational instruction depending on the need of the child, as well as occupational, physical and speech therapy.
The center has a jewelry and textile company and all sales made go towards paying the mothers salary as well as helping with cost at the children’s center. The community surrounding Heshima is able to buy clean water from the Heshima bore hole that is on site. This micro-business is called “Maji Kwa Heshima” which means “Water for Dignity”.
Cost

KMS member: Ksh 500 Member child: Ksh 250

Non members: KSh 600 Non member child: Ksh 300

Members will have a guided tour of the center and also get a chance to spend time with the kids.

Donation Requested: Diapers and wipes

Contact: Lucy/Dorothy – 0724 255 299 or info@kenyamuseumsociety.org

KMS Talk – NATURAL CULTURAL SITES IN KENYA by Dr. Celia Nyamweru

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NATURAL CULTURAL SITES IN KENYA
Saturday 29 March 2014
Louis Leakey Auditorium, Nairobi National Museum
Dear KMS Member,
Do you know what cultural or sacred sites are? Do you know where they are in Kenya? Do know their value and the challenges facing the kaya forests and other sites as Kenya’s?
All Kenya’s ethnic groups recognized ‘special places’ in their landscapes, places where the normal daily activities of farming, herding or hunting were forbidden or strictly controlled. Such places might be trees, forests, rock outcrops, hills or mountains, and they are often referred to as ‘natural sacred sites’ or ‘natural cultural sites’. Their meanings related to indigenous religions, or locations where ‘first settlement’ by the ancestors of a particular ethnic group occurred, or sites for particular community meetings and rituals.
After the imposition of colonial rule, many cultural sites were destroyed or degraded, but others have survived and are now the focus of conservation efforts by a wide range of stakeholders, from local community members to national and international NGOs and transnational organizations.
To find out the answers to these questions and how cultural forests, rocks and hills can survive in increasingly intensively developed landscapes, you are invited to this intriguing and captivating talk by Dr. Celia Nyamweru, who has been studying Kenya’s natural cultural sites for nearly 20 years, in particular the kaya forests of the Kenya coast.

Refreshments 3.15pm Starts 4:00 pm
Donation: Ksh 400 KMS member
Ksh 500 Guest
Ksh 200 Citizen & Student
Tickets: 0724 255299, 2339158 or info@kenyamuseumsociety.org
Mpesa no: 400800, Account no: 6571570019

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