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JAMS Students Quadruple Harvest with New Greenhouse Design

A huge harvest of vegetables, four times as much as usual, rewarded the innovative work of JAMS students and teachers this year. The harvest culminated a school-wide effort to use the new greenhouse in environmentally-sound ways...

March 26th, 2024|News|
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Friends of JAMS Leader Steps Down After Ten Years

Friends of JAMS would like to thank founding president, Diana Swanson, for her 10 years of service. What started out as a faculty friendship through Northern Illinois University became a dedicated mission to provide girls in Kenya with a secondary education...

March 26th, 2024|News|
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Highlights of 2023 According to JAMS Students

“I really like reading novels and our new library is just to my advantage and sooner or later I will write a book of my own as I am inspired every single day by the authors I read.” –T...

January 3rd, 2024|News|
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Happy New Year!

In 2023, your gifts supported 92 scholarships to JAMS. These scholarships provide tuition, room and board, books, school supplies, clothes, shoes, toiletries, and routine medical care. Your gifts also supported the construction of a new green house and the paving of campus walkways...

January 3rd, 2024|News|
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Giving Tuesday 2023 Success: Thank You!

We aimed for 33 new scholarships for the new class entering JAMS in January 2024—our highest goal ever—and you surpassed it! Many thanks to the donors who made it possible for us to provide 38 scholarships for the Class of 2027...

January 3rd, 2024|News|
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Agriculture: Key to the JAMS Mission

From the founding of JAMS in 2011, agriculture has been central to economic sustainability and to student-centering learning at JAMS. The Founder-Directors of Jane Adeny Memorial School aim to make the school as self-sufficient as possible and to use every donation dollar wisely...

November 3rd, 2023|News|
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Sustainability and Agriculture Education at JAMS

Gifts from generous donors over the past several years have funded improvements to the agriculture infrastructure at JAMS and have boosted the school’s sustainability. In June, the roof of the existing greenhouse was repaired. In addition, a second greenhouse was constructed...

June 22nd, 2023|News|
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JAMS Helping Its Neighbors

Jane Adeny Memorial School for Girls (JAMS) focuses on being a good neighbor. In addition to providing life-changing education for the girls who attend JAMS, the school contributes to the local community in various ways...

April 5th, 2023|News|
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Highlights of 2022 at JAMS

As Kenyan schools navigate the post-COVID pandemic world and catch up from the pandemic closures, Jane Adeny Memorial School (JAMS) logged some impressive achievements in 2022...

February 7th, 2023|News|
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NIU Visit Enriches Learning at JAMS

A visit from American teachers and teachers-in-training in summer 2022 helped to introduce some new techniques and approaches to Jane Adeny Memorial School. Three Northern Illinois University (NIU) faculty members led a group of seven pre-service teachers and seven practicing teachers...

February 7th, 2023|News|
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