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Thank You!

WOW! Dear friends, you surpassed our expectations for Give DeKalb County day! You gave 121% of our goal...

May 8th, 2019|News|

Continued Progress on the New JAMS Resource Center

Friends of JAMS has pledged to raise $30,000 to provide the Resource Center with computers, tables, bookshelves, desks, chairs, and internet connectivity...

May 7th, 2019|News|

Give It Up For JAMS!

Friends of JAMS has our first intern, Pooja Ballantine, an NNGO (Nonprofit and Non-Governmental Organizations) major at Northern Illinois University...

April 4th, 2019|News|

Improving Our Transparency and Outreach

Friends of JAMS has earned a 2019 Gold Seal by adding information to our Nonprofit Profile on GuideStar...

March 14th, 2019|News|

Success for the Class of 2018

In November 2018, the fifth graduating class of Jane Adeny Memorial School for Girls took their national graduation exams, commonly known in Kenya as KCSE exams (Kenyan Certificate of Secondary Education)...

January 15th, 2019|News|

New Partnership Endorses JAMS

Jane Adeny Memorial School has received a ringing endorsement from Brett Weiss, founder and director of the Weiss Scholarship Foundation...

December 10th, 2018|News|

Exciting New Music Program

Nelle Conley, 2018 graduate of Augustana College's music education program, has pioneered a music program at JAMS...

December 1st, 2018|News|

Entrepreneurial Endeavors Expanding

Over the past four years, JAMS has established several micro-enterprises on campus: raising chickens and selling eggs, running a dairy, growing vegetables, raising pigs, and baking bread...

November 15th, 2018|News|

Progress on Resource Center

This June, JAMS founders, Teresa Wasonga and Andrew Otieno, broke ground on the Resource Center which will house the school library and a new computer lab, a community education room, a faculty office, the principal's office, and even a storefront for the products of the school’s microenterprises...

November 1st, 2018|News|

Thank You! Give DeKalb County Day 2018

Thank You! Give DeKalb County Day 2018, a 24-hour day of online giving, was a great success for Friends of JAMS. Many thanks to you, our generous supporters!

May 4th, 2018|News|