Every theme is a Quest.
A Quest is one month of stories, talk, a guest expert and a real mission. Children collect a stamp in their Soma Passport for each one they finish.
The Clean Streets Quest
Thirty children are reading about waste and pollution. Each stage reads a different story on the same theme so everyone can join the same conversation.
- Read and talkKiko and the Baobab with stories matched to each stage
- Read and talkWhere does our rubbish really go?
- MeetA live session with a local waste recycler
- DoA community clean up with parents and volunteers
- LeadSquad Leaders present the Quest at our live showcase
The Soma Passport
Every finished Quest earns a stamp. Here are the Quests our squads have completed this year plus the one coming next.
- Trees of LifePlanted 40 seedlings
- Kindness CountsWrote 60 thank you letters
- Drums and StoriesRecorded 12 family stories
- The Swahili CoastBuilt a trade route timeline
- Clean StreetsRunning now
- Our Elders SpeakStarts in December
The Mission Log
A record of what our squads did after they closed the book. Newest first.
Saturday 26 September 2026
Deep Readers led their first discussion with the youngest squad
After reading about Wangari Maathai they planted twelve seedlings beside the venue. Each Story Starter named one tree.
Deep Readers
Saturday 12 September 2026
A historian answered forty questions about the Swahili coast
The Page Turners then built a timeline of the old trading towns on our wall using maps they drew themselves.
Page Turners
Saturday 29 August 2026
Nine Story Starters read a whole book on their own
Each of them finished a picture book from start to end without help. They took the books home to read to their families.
Story Starters
Saturday 20 June 2026
Grandparents came to share the stories they grew up with
The squad recorded twelve stories in Kiswahili and English for our library.
All stages
Saturday 18 April 2026
Sixty thank you letters to the people who keep our streets running
Children wrote to market traders, bus drivers and the crossing guard near our venue.
All stages
From our story library
A taste of the stories our squads read. Choose a stage to see what fits.
Showing 6 stories
Kiko and the Baobab
Grandmother's Seeds
The Drum That Kept Time
Amani Learns to Listen
The Salt Road to Lamu
Who Owns the River?
Put your name behind the next Quest.
Fund a whole theme from books to mission. We send you the story of what the children read and what they did.