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...
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...
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...
Happy New Year!
With heartfelt gratitude, we wish you, our supporters, a very happy new year! We hope that 2023 brings you peace and many blessings. In 2022, your gifts provided 94 scholarships. These scholarships give each girl tuition, room and board, books, school supplies, clothes, and routine medical care...
Northern Illinois Educator Inspired by JAMS
Andrea Trudeau traveled from Illinois to JAMS in the summer of 2022, as part of a team of educators from Northern Illinois University (NIU) funded by a U.S. Department of State Fulbright-Hayes grant...
On Giving Tuesday, Give Kenyan Girls a Life-Changing Education
Please support the girls at JAMS on the global day of generosity, Giving Tuesday, held this year on November 29, or in your end-of-year charitable giving...
“A Magical Place:” NIU Fulbright-Hayes Team Visits JAMS
In summer 2022, a team from Northern Illinois University visited JAMS and found it to be “a magical place.” Funded by a U.S. Department of State Fulbright-Hayes grant, the team spent two weeks at schools in Tanzania and two weeks at JAMS in Kenya...
Give DeKalb County Success! Thank You, Donors!
We are more grateful than we can express. You, our wonderful supporters, came through once again for the girls at JAMS. The 2022 Give DeKalb County donations go to the JAMS Scholarship Fund. Your gifts, large and small, add up to the equivalent of 49 years of transformative high school education at JAMS...
Major Library Expansion
A major gift just arrived at the Judith Wehrmeister Library at JAMS. Thanks to Bookfriends International NFP, a curated collection of over 6,000 books has been added to the bookshelves...
Success for the Class of 2021!
The 35 young women in the JAMS Class of 2021 have done us proud in the KCSE—Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education national exams. 100% qualified for vocational college programs and 60% qualified for 4-year university programs.,,