JAMS Graduation 2024

OUR VISION: Educate Girls, Change the World

Educating girls is the single most powerful investment we can make to achieve a more prosperous, just, and peaceful future for our planet. Educating girls improves the wellbeing of communities and nations, strengthening families, improving public health, growing GDP, and increasing peace and social stability.

JAMS Class in Sparks Lab

WHY JAMS? JAMS Educates and Empowers

Jane Adeny Memorial School for Girls in rural Kenya educates girls who would otherwise not advance beyond middle school and empowers them to become women who participate fully in the life of the nation. JAMS also provides an innovative, effective pedagogical model for the nation of Kenya and for East Africa.

  • 100% graduation rate since 2014
  • 100% of students have qualified for higher education on the national exams since 2019
  • 86% of JAMS graduates have gone on to higher education, 60% to university and 26% to vocational and technical institutes.
  • Learn more about why JAMS is successful.

Teaching methods, school governance, curriculum, and living conditions are all designed to instill self-confidence, initiative, and respect for others and to develop effective life skills and leadership qualities. JAMS is grounded in a holistic philosophy: we care about the whole child, her emotional, physical, and intellectual well-being.

Together Forward Together

OUR PURPOSE: Education “Good Enough for the Richest, Open to the Poorest”

Friends of Jane Adeny Memorial School raises friends and funds for Jane Adeny Memorial School for Girls in rural western Kenya, Africa. We provide funds for books, computers, campus infrastructure, and scholarships for orphaned and impoverished girls whose families are unable to pay public high school fees.

  • As of the Class of 2024, 136 young women have graduated from JAMS on full scholarships
  • Sparks Science Building with well-equipped labs for learning science
  • Wehrmeister Library containing a collection of 10,000 books
  • Computer Lab with 25 computers for students
  • Solar Power Campus-Wide 24/7/365
  • See more accomplishments

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Give DeKalb County is May 1, 2025

Give DeKalb County (GDC) is Friends of JAMS’ largest fundraiser of the year, its appeal greatly enhanced by the rewards of a bonus pool. Every donation grows larger by a percentage of the pool, providing even more support for the girls at JAMS...

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Your donation is tax deductible to the full extent of the law. Friends of Jane Adeny Memorial School is a registered 501(c)3 organization.

Friends of JAMS

Friends of Jane Adeny Memorial School

P.O. Box 292

Sycamore, IL 60178 USA





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