Jitegemee Seeks Proposals for New Computer Lab!
Friends, as we transition into our new building we are excited to begin building out our digital learning space, and establishing Jitegemee as a leader in web and mobile phone software development training for students in the Machakos, Kenya area. As such, Jitegemee is currently accepting proposals to develop a computer lab by June of 2015 and launch a pilot class focused on web development skills for at least 15 students that will run daily for at least three months. The purpose of this … [Read more...]
The Building Coming to Life – September 2014
Photographs taken on site in Machakos, Kenya as the new Jitegemee Education Center building comes to life, featuring photos of the ribbon cutting ceremony for the new building. … [Read more...]
New Education Center Construction Updates – November 2013
Friends, We want to share with you some exciting photo updates from Machakos! Thanks to your help, construction on the new education center is well under way. Many of you gave to us three years ago when this project was nothing more than a dream. Because of you we are closer than ever to making it a reality. If you want to kick in a little bit more, it's not too late to do so. But really, we just wanted to send you a note of thanks, and share the progress with you! Check out more photos on … [Read more...]
Interview with Emma Katrina Mbithe, Jitegemee Vocational Class 9
Emma is a 17 year old student from Machakos who was recently enrolled in Jitegemee's 9th vocational training program. Our staff sat down with her at our school to talk a bit about her experience at Jitegemee. How did you come to find Jitegemee? I come from a rural town outside of Machakos in the hills. I dropped out of school after Form 3 (11th grade equivalent) because my family no longer had the money for school fees for me and my three siblings. While I was in school, I received … [Read more...]
Connecting with the Kids
Wairimu Mwaura is a Jitegemee Board Member. She took her first trip to visit the program in May 2013. I grew up a city girl in Nairobi and was blessed to have come from a middle class family. Poverty was all around me, but always on the periphery. I never saw myself as being part of its eradication. It wasn’t until I moved to Boston and joined the board of Jitegemee that I realized the impact I could have, and the impact that Jitegemee’s children would have on me. In May, a group … [Read more...]
July 2013 Program Director Update
We are pleased to report that the construction of Jitegemee’s new center has finally begun. In May, we held a colorful ground-breaking ceremony, attended by students, parents, local community members and friends from the United States. We are now at the stage of completing the foundation. The first phase will include an administrative block, library, computer lab, classrooms, canteen, security gate, kitchen and toilet. If all goes as planned, the exterior of the main building will be completed … [Read more...]
New Educational Center Ground Breaking Ceremony – May 14th, 2013
Photographs taken in Machakos town, featuring friends, faculty and students of Jitegemee on the occasion of the Ground Breaking Ceremony for the new Education Center. … [Read more...]
Jitegemee Changes That
From our June 2012 Newsletter Back in 1999, when I was a newly minted graduate and embarking on my first international job, I had the privilege of having Farah Stockman, the founder of Jitegemee, as my boss. We were journalists, reporting on the international tribunal for the Rwandan genocide. But I recall that, even then, she spoke constantly about her street kids education project in Machakos. Farah and I would eventually move on to other jobs, but we kept in touch and every once in … [Read more...]
A Jitegemee Internship
A letter from our first intern, Calum Bowden recapping his Jitegemee experience From our July 2011 Newsletter There is no way to envisage what life is like in rural Kenya and much of the developing world until you experience it firsthand. Coming from white, middle class America, no matter how many generalizations about Africa you’ve heard, there is no way to understand the overwhelming lack of opportunity that plagues places like Kenya. As I discovered, Jitegemee exists to provide … [Read more...]
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