Kijana Educational Empowerment Initiative,
a non-profit organization, promotes and cultivates youth empowerment through educational development, cross-cultural dialogue,
and sustainable and environmentally friendly economic growth, among rural Kenyan school communities and American school communities.
KEEI has assisted ten schools in western Kenya over the past several years. Ebusiloli Secondary and Primary schools have received the most significant investments. Ebusiloli has begun to enter an era in which each year they send at least one student to the university.Alumni are also graduating from universities and returning to assist the school. Prior to our consistent assistance, it was rare for the school to have so many students attending university. Enrollment has also skyrocketed - from around 100 in 1998 (when we began active involvement with The Benjamin School cross-country team fundraiser - KEEI's predecessor) to over 450 students now.
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In October 2011, Kijana officers in Kenya and students in various schools planted over 1200 tree seedlings in honor of the late Wangari Maathai, who passed away in September 2011. Professor Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Movement- which is credited with planting over 40 million trees in Africa, was the 2004 winner of the ...
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Ebusiloli Secondary School- our flagship secondary school- is seeing a large expansion of students going on to the University. This is a direct result of our longterm and sustained commitment to the school. In the early 2000s, Ebusiloli was sending at most one student a year on to university. Today at least 14 Ebusiloli alums ...
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Students from The Benjamin Upper School International Club (in Palm Beach Gardens, FL) held a holiday book drive for the new library at Mwituha Secondary School- recently built by “Kijana.” The students collected 3000 books of a huge variety of titles which we will be shipping over to Mwituha. The diversity of titles and number ...
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Students perform on the stage of the new amphitheater at Mwituha Secondary School- financed by “Kijana” and developed under the guidance of Kenyan architect Jeremiah Awori. The beautiful new multi-purpose structure will house thousands of books and encourage the advancement of the visual arts and architecture in western Kenya.
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Members of the Mwituha School community are proud and appreciative of the new library/amphitheater we have constructed at Mwituha Secondary School The opening ceremony was held in July of 2011. Students have a new comfortable place to enjoy reading. We are busy working to add resources to develop one of the best and most creative ...
This is an exciting time for our organization. We are proud to report on the successes of the last year and the exciting plans for 2009. We continue to make significant strides in our gateway region of Bunyore Kenya and are developing unique ways of promoting cross-cultural education in the United States. We anticipate that our initiatives will help make 2009 even more fruitful for our students and communities.
kijana@kijana.org
561-337-7893
321 Northlake Blvd, Suite 202
