TWS||Nicholas Waigwa
The Transformed
Me April 2015 event
-first edition concluded on Friday evening at the Langata Botanical
Gardens after two days of fun filled experiential learning which
featured primary school pupils and high school students.
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| Erick Chuma (in red T-shirt) leads participants in the badobado performance at the Langata botanical gardens on Thursday afternoon |
Facilitators used an integrated &
experiential learning approach to help participants internalize the
event’s key messages.
Presented during the event were
sessions covering content on how to read smart, prepare adequately
for exams, cope with peer pressure, demands of study life (exam
stress, anxiety).
Concentration games, cooking and
swimming exercises were also used during the event to help
participants appreciate and respect sacrifices made by parents to
secure a meaningful future for children.
These activities and exercises
also sought to inculcate positive attitude and values on: general
etiquette, grooming, roles, responsibility and relationships that
give excellent foundation to a holistic life.
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| Social Skills: chef Simo with the youth during a samosa cooking session |
Catherine Kisasa of the Catra
Educational Services & Consultants urged participants to make
good use of what they acquired during the two day encounter.
"I would like to emphasize what
your facilitator said, our parents provide for us because they would
like to see us become responsible individuals and we have a
responsibility to respect this sacrifice if we are to become
wholesome individuals.” Kisasa
Likening the many sacrifices
parents make to invest in the formation of their children to the
ingredients participants had used earlier in the day for the
preparation of Chapatis
and Samosas,
team building talent and teen’s trainer Erick Chuma advised
participants against allowing bad behavior to destroy these
ingredients of a safe path to a meaningful future.
Chuma noted that the consequence
of letting bad behavior overtake the value of the ingredients
responsible parents put together to prepare children for a successful
future is always dire and irreversible.
The next Transformed Me event - an excursion for form four leavers batch of 2014, college and university students is scheduled for 1st June 2015.
Catherine Kisasa of the Transformed Me program says the youth will (during the one day event on Madaraka Day) cover among other subjects: balancing academic & social life, Coping with demands of study & stress management.
The participants will also get input on how to prepare for life during & after college/university, work ethics, positive attitude, values at home, work place and society.
“The world if you have noticed can be so cruel to those who are not sharpened for life. All this we are doing as part of our mission to provide them with tools that will enable them become responsible persons” Kisasa
Parents who registered their
children for the transformed Me event expressed gratitude to the
organizers for the event with some seeking to know whether there
would be a similar event for their children before schools open for
the second term in May.
One of the parents who sponsored
four children from her family to the event said “I have to say
thank you for the excellent and worthy job done”
Participants went for swimming in Royale Karen at the evergreen
moor-land located in Karen South, opposite the Kenya School of Law. The
facility provides health & fitness, fun & recreation among other services.
Transformed Me
is an initiative of Catra Educational Services & Consultants and
Nickpoint Media. The Transformed
Me program has training & activities for the youth (in schools, colleges and
universities), teachers and parents.
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