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Bread & Roses Concert a Phenomenal Success!

In late summer of 2014, several members of Bread & Roses, a women’s chorus in northern Illinois, contacted Friends of Jane Adeny Memorial School for Girls with an exciting proposal. Bread & Roses was preparing to celebrate their 20th anniversary with a special concert in April of 2015. They wanted to make Jane Adeny School for Girls the beneficiary of that concert...

June 12th, 2015|Events, News|
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Our Youngest Donor Ever!

Chelsea hand delivered her donation to Jane Adeny Memorial School for Girls to Diana Swanson, President of Friends of JAMS. She also kindly gave Diana a drawing which is now proudly displayed in Diana’s office. Chelsea’s mother explains how this all came about...

March 17th, 2015|News|
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JUBILATION! JAMS FIRST NATIONAL EXAMS RESULTS

We are happy to announce that the first graduates of Jane Adeny Memorial School for Girls have performed extremely well on their national secondary school exams. JAMS came out as #3 out of 28 schools in our district, an impressive result for the first time our students have taken the KCSE exam...

March 9th, 2015|News|
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International Volunteers – Summer 2014

Several friends of Jane Adeny Memorial School (JAMS) from the U.S. spent time in Kenya this past Summer as volunteers, working on projects to spruce up, paint, and repair campus buildings...

December 2nd, 2014|News|
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New Dairy Farm Project at JAMS

Jane Adeny Memorial School and venture | dairy have entered into a new partnership to create a demonstration dairy at the school. The project will not only provide milk for the students at the school, but the girls will learn how to run a dairy operation. It's also an opportunity to create a sustainable new source of income for the school...

November 5th, 2014|News|
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Mock National Exam Results

SUPER NEWS! Exam results just out: Jane Adeny Memorial School's form fours/seniors achieved fifth place overall in the mock national exams held in the region. One JAMS student was among the top ten students in the region. This bodes very well for results in the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) exams that...

September 15th, 2014|News|
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First Graduation Ceremony at JAMS!

On July 5, 2014, Jane Adeny Memorial School for Girls (JAMS) held the first graduation ceremony ever! Above is the first graduating class posed with school founders, Teresa Akinyi Wasonga and Andrew Wasonga. In October & November 2014, the graduates will take their Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) exams...

July 17th, 2014|News|
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