Orphaned young, Florence struggled to pay for primary school, collecting firewood and weeding fields to survive. She excelled academically despite her challenges. Secondary school fees seemed impossible until Friends of JAMS granted her a scholarship...
Visitors from the Museum of Kenya and interns from Maseno University visited JAMS in May 2024 for presentations and discussion related to historical anthropology and to education in general...
During the rainy season, sticky mud filled the pathways at JAMS. Deep mud made walking from building to building both unsafe and very messy...
JAMS’ volleyball team did well this season, winning the division level competition. In the photographs, they are practicing for the district volleyball tournament...
Installation of a solar power system and a biogas operation began in May at Jane Adeny Memorial School for Girls (JAMS), thanks to record-breaking donations to Friends of JAMS through Give DeKalb County...
Friends of JAMS’ donors strongly endorsed sustainability initiatives at Jane Adeny Memorial School for Girls (JAMS) with a record-setting total...
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...
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...
Please save the date! Donations of any amount through Give DeKalb County are much appreciated and will go to support both scholarships and sustainability at JAMS...
“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...