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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a financial emergency for the Jane Adeny Memorial School (JAMS). In July, the Kenyan government mandated that schools remain closed until January 2021 and that the academic year begin over again at that time. We need your help in raising $60,000 to sustain JAMS until students return to campus in January...

There is More to a Campus than Students, or How Not to Close a Campus . . . In March, the Kenya Ministry of Education announced that all schools, public and private, must close and the students return home. There was hope at the time that the students might be able to return to campus in September, but in July the Minister announced that the students were to remain at home and not return to their schools until January 2021...

Following the advent of COVID-19, all schools in Kenya were closed and students sent home. Students at JAMS traveled home between March 15 and 21 and all reached home safely...

We are thrilled to report that one of the first JAMS graduates has returned to JAMS as a teacher. Lynnet Owuor, Class of 2014, graduated from the University of Nairobi with a bachelor’s degree in science education in the fall of 2019. In January of 2020, she accepted a position as a teacher of biology and chemistry...