Two Weeks in Nakuru: Our Latest Teen Group Wraps Up an Unforgettable Kenya Expedition
Fourteen days, one great group of teens, and a trip through Nakuru that mixed classroom volunteering with tree planting, safaris, and a Maasai cultural exchange. Here’s what our latest Climate Change & Wildlife Expedition group got up to on the ground.
2026 marked another round of our Climate Change & Wildlife Expedition for Teenagers, with a fresh group spending two weeks in Nakuru, Kenya. The group moved through a packed itinerary that mixed community work, conservation, and cultural exchange from the day they landed to the day they flew home.
This program packs a lot into fourteen days. The group split their time between local schools and kindergartens, where they helped with reading, arts and crafts, and sports, and conservation work out in Nakuru’s parks and reserves. They painted murals with the kids they worked with, sat in on a Maasai cultural exchange with traditional dance, beadwork, and storytelling, and spent a full day on safari in Lake Nakuru National Park spotting flamingos, rhinos, and giraffes. Team-building days brought their own kind of fun too, with the group tackling a rope swing, a balance rope course, and a handful of other trust-and-teamwork exercises together. Later in the trip, they got their hands dirty planting trees at the Dundori nursery and pulling invasive species, then sat down with local Kenyan youth for climate action workshops on what sustainability actually looks like on the ground.
None of this runs itself, and a big part of why this group had the trip it did comes down to Jamie, our chaperone on the ground. She kept the group grounded, made sure every teen felt looked after, brought energy to the bonfires and talent shows.
Evenings weren’t all work, either. Between the volunteering, the group found time for soccer matches with local students, a Kenyan cooking class, a city walk through Nakuru, and more than one bonfire that ran later than planned.
If you’ve got a teen who’s curious about conservation, travel, or just doing something real with their summer, this is exactly the kind of program we love sending kids on. It’s structured, it’s supervised, and it puts them shoulder to shoulder with local communities and wildlife experts instead of just watching from the sidelines.
