Hyrax Hill Museum in Nakuru has commenced a program to empower primary children through creativity club.
According to Hyrax Hill Museum Curator Ms Lilian Amwanda, the creativity club was started at the Museum way back in 2017 after she realized that there was a gap in terms of children empowerment.
She adds that after noticing that the children who used to visit the Museum had talents but there was no channel to explore inspired her in starting the club to impact and nurture the young talents.
Over 50 children from different schools are registered members of the club and they have involved in various artistic works among them beading, painting, ornaments development, poetry, music and dance.
“We realized that it is only through creativity club that their talents can be realized and that is why we started this club,” said Amwanda.
She adds that they have set aside some fund for the program to facilitate the purchase of the education materials.
Apart from the artistic works, the children are also taught matters history about the Hyrax Hill Museum as well as culture and heritage.
According to Amwanda, the program that is now over two years old has been embraced by parents who were also invited during the launch.
While assuring on children’s security while at the Hyrax Hill Museum Creativity Club, she called on parents to make use of the facility to empower their children during this holiday season.
“We have maximum security for the children. We only have them here from morning when they check in and we follow up on them when they leave for home at noon. I urge parents not to let their children hide their talents but they bring them here since we even don’t charge them,” said Amwanda.
Led by Loise Mbula and Wayne Njoroge, the young artists were grateful to the Hyrax Hill Museum for coming up with such programmes.
“We are grateful for this program as it will help us nurture our talents,” they said.