Jitegemee: Empowering Street Children through Education

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2020 Annual Report

Despite the extraordinary challenges of last year, we are so pleased to also share our progress and successes in our 2020 Annual Report. … [Read more...]

Reopening our campus

Like much of the world, here at Jitegemee, we've had to make so many adjustments and changes as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. We are happy to let our friends know that after a year of school closures and lockdowns, in 2021 we have reopened our campus and are finding safe ways to continue serving our children, families and community during these uncertain times.Video production by Armstrong Too-Toe Studios. The video above was shared during our first ever online fundraiser, held on April … [Read more...]

Striving for Success

I want to become a neurosurgeon and help improve the quality of life of people in my community." Elizabeth is 16, and in her family she's the sixth born of seven children raised in Machakos town, Central Kenya. Her elder siblings are all married with some of her sisters married as early as seventeen. Before joining Jitegemee, Elizabeth had been in and out of schooling for years, her primary school graduation date delayed for years, having to drop out of school for lack of tuition fee. Her … [Read more...]

Updates from a Difficult Year

Habari yako! How are you, friends? It's been a while since we last updated our friends on how we're doing at Jitegemee. Just like everyone else, we have been struggling to deal with the impact of the Covid-19 crisis. But we are still here, and we are grateful for all the support our friends have shown us! Kenya has been fairly hard hit by Covid-19, with over 25,000 cases of Covid-19, and over 400 deaths to date. Schools across the country have been closed since March, and will likely remain … [Read more...]

Jitegemee 2019 Annual Report

2020 has been a long year with unforeseen challenges for everyone, which has resulted in our 2019 Annual Report being a lot later than we'd hoped. However, as this year comes to an end, we wanted to share our highlights from 2019. Please enjoy our 2019 Annual Report. And to all our friends and donors, please accept a big Thank You from all of us at Jitegemee for making our work possible! … [Read more...]

Jitegemee 2018 Annual Report

We are thrilled to share all our good news from 2018! Please take a look at our recently-published 2018 Annual Report for all our updates, activities, successes, and financial reporting from last year. … [Read more...]

Vocational Students Attend Biggest Skills Show in Kenya

In February 2019, our Vocational students traveled to Nairobi to attend Kenya's biggest skills show - Hands on the Future Kenya Skills Show 2019 - which was attended by over 20,000 young people from across the country. The theme of the show was #JijengeNaSkills (Build yourself through skills) - a vision we subscribe to here at Jitegemee. Our students were thrilled to learn from the hundreds of exhibitors about the vocational, technical, entrepreneurship and life-skills training opportunities … [Read more...]

Jitegemee’s Growing Team

Jitegemee has seen some rapid growth and changes over the past year or two, and that includes a number of additions to our wonderful staff team. We'd like to introduce some of the amazing people who have joined us during the past few years, and let you know more about the great work they are doing! Jennifer Katiwa is Jitegemee’s Country Director and took over this leadership role in January 2018. Jennifer joined us after working for Windle Trust for more than seven years in Dadaab … [Read more...]

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