Kiboya Comprehensive School-Transforming One School Community At a Time

Kiboya Comprehensive School-Transforming One School Community At a Time

🌱 Kiboya Comprehensive School’s 4K Club: Growing Nutrition, Knowledge, and Climate Action

4k Club members after a  bumper harvest. 

In Kiboya, an arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL) region where farming is often challenged by dry conditions and pests, a group of young learners is proving that change begins with small steps. At Kiboya Comprehensive School, the 4K Club has transformed a quarter-acre of land into a thriving demonstration garden—thanks to the support of the Pioneer Child Development Programme (PCDP).

Building a Climate-Smart School Garden

With PCDP’s support, the school secured and equipped its garden:

✅ Fenced ¼ acre plot with mesh wire, barbed wire, and concrete posts to protect crops from pests like rabbits and rats.
✅ Installed a 5,000-liter water harvesting tank for reliable irrigation.
✅ Set up an economical shade structure serving as a nursery for seedlings.
✅ Introduced conical gardens showcasing kitchen gardening technologies.

4k club members at their conical gardens.

Today, crops such as spinach, kale, and indigenous vegetables thrive in the garden—feeding both students’ bodies and minds.

Learning by Doing

The 4K Club members receive hands-on training in:

• 🌿 Organic pest management
• 💧 Making homemade foliar fertilizers
• 🌱 Soil care, seed propagation & water conservation

4k club members during an indoor training session.

This approach aligns with Kenya’s Competency-Based Education (CBE), making the garden a living classroom where lessons in agriculture, science, and environment come alive.

Impact Beyond the Garden

🍲 Health & Nutrition

Fresh vegetables from the garden are enriching school meals, ensuring children eat healthier diets with more vitamins and indigenous foods.

📚 Competency-Based Education in Practice

Learners apply classroom knowledge to real-world farming, gaining problem-solving, innovation, and stewardship skills.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Community Learning Hub

Over 250 parents are involved—donating manure, visiting the garden, and replicating practices at home. The school has become a demonstration hub for the entire community.

🌍 Climate Action & Stewardship

4k club members reciting a climate action poem to the Governor Laikipia County Joshua Irungu during World Environment Day, 2025. 

By practicing water-efficient gardening and organic farming, the garden champions climate resilience. Students are learning to value nature while advocating for sustainable food systems.

Voices of Change

“The school garden has not only fed our children but has also taught us parents how to farm smarter at home. We now grow vegetables using the conical garden method.”
— Parent, Kiboya Community

“Through the 4K Club, I have learned how to make organic foliar and take care of vegetables. I even help my parents in our home garden.”
— 4K Club Member, Kiboya Comprehensive School

A Garden Beyond Food

For Kiboya Comprehensive School, the 4K Club garden is more than just a project. It is a source of food, a classroom for practical learning, a training hub for parents, and a platform for climate action.

A healthy kale under drip-irrigation at Kiboya garden. 

With continued support from PCDP, this quarter-acre is not only greening Kiboya—it is growing resilience, knowledge, and hope for the future.