Ajiri Foundation Impact Reports

Latest report · 2025–26

Moving our feet

In an uncertain year in Kenya, from soaring fuel prices to weeks of school closures, we worked to give our scholars a firm sense of who they are and where they come from. Here is the year at a glance.

28scholars sponsored in 2025
10 of 11recent graduates continuing their education
64%of our 2025 KCSE scholars earned a C+ or higher (27% nationally)
$45,170invested in scholars' education in 2025

Highlights

  • Moving our hands. A year-long handwork program to help scholars manage stress: knitting, painting and traditional basket weaving. The teenage boys loved knitting most.
  • Someone to listen. Scholars met with a counselor every school break, and for the first time we brought their guardians together for a counseling session of their own.
  • Discovering where they come from. Scholars interviewed relatives and village elders, built family trees and wrote their village histories on the Ajiri Journal.
  • Tutoring. Two tutors worked with scholars on chemistry, math and physics about twice a week during school breaks, and grades improved term after term.
  • Camp Ajiri. A week on an 800-hectare working farm in Njoro, with applied math, computer skills, orienteering and archery.
  • Giving back. Scholars repaired the mud walls of elderly neighbors' homes and brought them flour, sugar and cooking oil.
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Previous report · 2024–25

A year of movement

This year our scholars were always on the move: hiking to waterfalls, earning first aid certificates, touring local industries and repairing homes for elderly neighbors. Here is the year at a glance.

28scholars sponsored in 2025 (38 in 2024)
9 of 92024 graduates now pursuing higher education
$50,000+spent on scholars' fees, supplies and programs in 2024
$1,467saved into scholars' higher education accounts in 2024

Highlights

  • Every scholar is first aid certified. All of our scholars completed a Red Cross first aid course over their December 2024 school break.
  • They can all swim. Every Ajiri scholar learns to swim before graduating, and they are now mastering freestyle and diving in the deep end.
  • Learning beyond the classroom. On every school holiday, scholars toured local industries, including a tea factory, a coffee processing plant and the water treatment plant.
  • Giving back. Scholars chose where to spend four community service days, repairing homes and delivering groceries for elderly neighbors.
  • Camp Ajiri turned five. The daily team-building challenges were the scholars' favorite part of the week.
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