Before the start of the school year in mid-January, all of the Ajiri scholars gather for a meeting and make a group contract. The contract, originally designed to hold our students accountable for their future actions,…
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Like chameleons, teenage survival depends on blending into their environment. Their desire to fit in is so painfully at the surface that you can almost feel their desire to retract into themselves—to make themselves small, unnoticeable. After the recent computer camp last week, there was nothing small or unnoticeable about these scholars.
Sometimes it seems as though we know the end of the story when we've just read the first page. He grew up with his elderly grandparents in Daraja Mbili, home of one of the largest outdoor marketplaces in East Africa, in…
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The Ajiri Scholars are embarking on a year-long project exploring and recording Kisii history and culture.
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100% of the profits from the sale of Ajiri products are donated to the Ajiri Foundation. Learn about our incredible scholars, programming, and how your purchases add up to create an incredible community in western Kenya.
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Sara and I haven’t been to Kenya in almost two years. Since 2019 we both have had (or are about to have) children. There was, and is, of course, a pandemic. And we’ve been short-staffed packaging orders and running a…
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Temptations, bad friends freedom and drugs, all of this things and others are real in campus.
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Difna, our Ajiri social worker, calls our Ajiri students and asks them if they've done their homework. She asks them if they've eaten, what clothes they need, how they are feeling. She helps them with their math over…
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Here in the U.S. spring is unfolding and vaccines are on the horizon. But in Kenya, things are looking worse. A "third wave" of infections is enveloping the country, burrowing into the cities and countryside alike. Our…
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