JAMS KEEPS LEARNING ALIVE DURING THE PANDEMIC
The COVID-19 Impact on Education in Kenya: The Kenyan government closed all public and private schools in March. In July, the government ordered schools to remain closed until January 2021...
KEEPING THE JAMS CAMPUS OPEN DURING COVID-19
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...
A Gift of Care: Masks for JAMS
A group of JAMS supporters in DeKalb County, Illinois, has donated their time, talent, and treasure to help protect JAMS students, teachers, and staff when the school can reopen in January, 2021...
JAMS Pandemic Update
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...
Thank You, Donors! Give DeKalb County a Great Success!
Thanks to supporters like you, Give DeKalb County 2020 was a great success! We surpassed our goal by almost $3,000 to raise a total of $12,980 this year...
Give DeKalb County Day May 7, 2020
The DeKalb County, Illinois, annual day of giving is coming up on May 7. We know that many of you are giving more to local causes this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but we hope you include JAMS in your giving as well...
JAMS and the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has begun to impact Africa. In mid-March, the Kenyan government closed schools as part of their effort to slow the spread of the virus. JAMS hired private vans and cars to take students home and all the students had left campus by March 19...
JAMS Grad Returns to Teach
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...
POSTPONED: Ninth Annual Transformation Through Rhythm Concert
The ninth annual benefit concert, Transformation Through Rhythm, originally scheduled for Friday, March 20, 2020, at 7:00 pm in the DeKalb High School Auditorium, has been postponed to a future date, to be announced...
Ninth Annual Transformation Through Rhythm Concert to Benefit Jane Adeny Memorial School in Kenya
The community is invited to the benefit concert, Transformation Through Rhythm, on Friday, March 20, 2020, at 7:00 pm in the DeKalb High School Auditorium in DeKalb, Illinois. The concert will feature the Harambee African Percussion Ensemble, the DeKalb High School Percussion Ensemble, and the Northern Illinois University Percussion Ensemble...