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Travel With Us To Kenya February 2022

Plan to visit Juanita School for Girls from February 15 to February 24, 2022. Visit the school on their Thanksgiving Founders Day on February 19. It will be a day of jubilee filled with singing, dancing, speeches, and food with the famous Juanita School Goat Roast. The whole community turns out for this event plus…
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Students Resume Learning at Juanita School

Previous Next On Tuesday, January 5th, 2021, students and teachers reported back to Juanita School for a new semester. This was after more than 9 months of the break caused by the Covid-19 pandemic back in March.  Both the students and teachers were excited to be back and were even more excited to resumed learning…
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Thank You Message From Jacinta

We, the entire community of Juanita School wish to give thanks to the Almighty God for his provision for the entire year since we started our school in January 2020. We wish to express our sincerest gratitude to you, our friends, partners, American team, and our Kenyan team, for your support in various ways. Your…
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End of Year Newsletter from Juanita School

Here are highlights of some of the things we have accomplished this year at Juanita School. It has been a tough year on everyone but thanks to you, and your contributions, we have been able to continue with the work of improving Juanita School as we aim to make it an education friendly environment for…
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Juanita School To Reopen On January 5th 2021

JUANITAGirls High SchoolA Ple to LiveacandLearnA CenterofExcellenceRalphomines After a tough and long year, the Ministry of Education in Kenya has recently approved a reopening plan for learning institutions. High Schools will be reopening on the 4th of January 2021 to pick up where they left of after closure due to Covid-19 back in March of…
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Back to School Campaign

Students are almost returning to Juanita School. They will need school supplies to help them transition back into the learning environment. By only chipping in $10, you can help our students get the school materials they need. This will help with buying notebooks, pens, pencils, reading books, and other stationery. Note: Your donation is completely…
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Update from Juanita: We have more desks and more chicks

Hello all, just an update since the last: We have reached 105 chicks/chicken this week plus three turkey chicks. Praise be to God. One goat gave birth to a girl last week. We have added two more rabbits as all the animals continue to thrive. 20 new student desks were delivered today as well as…
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We have a new school stove – Update from George Hutchings

On February 24, 2020, we were visiting Juanita School for Girls, in Jungle, Kenya. We had the morning off so we went to see orphan elephants in an elephant orphanage farm in Nairobi. Jeremiah Gibbs had told me that the school needed a wood burning stove. I asked how much it would cost and he…
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