Teacher Who Sold Mansion To Build Picnic Site

What are you willing to sacrifice to ensure that you have to achieve your dreams?

To get where you want to go, you will have to make sacrifices.

Our society’s growing awakening to the fact that money does not buy happiness must be accompanied with the realization that sacrifices are inevitable in pursuit of real joy. For example, we may need to sacrifice a comfortable salary when we leave a corporate job to chase our goals or dreams.

Grace Kimathi understands this very well; she took a risk and is ripping the benefits of taking that bold step.

Grace Kimathi sold her house in the posh Runda estate for Ksh2 million. Seeking to establish a Christian retirement centre together with her husband, James, she settled her business investment on an upcoming estate at the time, Ngong. 

Shallom Picnic Gardens, in Ngong, Nairobi, sits on an eight-acre plot of land and includes well-manicured lawns with exquisite features such as conference halls, offices, makuti bandas, tents and cooking sites. 

Located 35 kilometers from Nairobi Central Business District (CBD) and overlooking the beautiful Ngong Hills, is an expansive picnic site that has become a go-to spot for Nairobians seeking an adventure. 

“This was the only way I could get money to buy four acres of land in Ngong town to pursue my vision,” she stated previously in a media interview. 

The decision to ditch the idea of building a Christian retirement centre was influenced by lack of funds, so the couple decided to build a picnic site instead. 

Pumping all her retirement benefits into the project, the woman developed the piece of the land in the course of four years. 

“We built the place over four years and that is how Shallom picnic site came about, though we rebranded to Picnic Gardens,” she noted. 

As the site began drawing attraction, guests pushed Kimathi and her husband to build a guest house, to which the duo obliged. 

For Kimathi, developing the picnic site has not been without its fair share of challenges, financially as well as low stream of customers.

“You have to work hard and sacrifice a lot. You also have to have a good rapport with your clients, patience, and good public relations,” she pointed out.

Are you willing to make that sacrifice?

Sacrifices free us as we give ourselves over fully to our dreams and goals. And if you still find yourself hesitating, remember this: it is not about what we have to give up; it is about what we stand to gain.

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