HABARI: NEWS JANUARY 2012

HABARI : END OF THE YEAR NEWS

At the end of November the schools in Kenya went on holidays after three months of their final trimester in our school year. This ended our third year since the first students enrolled in Father Symon’s Jubilee School for Nomads.  In our third year we had children in third through seventh grade and are looking forward to having our 8th graders which will be the top and final year in our school. We have already bought text books for our top class and a classroom is already furnished for them with the good desks and chairs that were in the container that we shipped to the school from America in January 2011.  I hear the children cannot wait to use this beautiful furniture that is not found in many schools in Kenya.  Gradually we are using the items that we shipped.  Chairs and dining tables were put in use as soon as they arrived.  The desks and other chairs will all be in use beginning in the new year (January) and other items will be used as time goes on.  New third graders...

As we proceed toward the end of the School Year, there is still lots of activity on campus

HABARI: NEW SEPTEMBER 2011

Five Family Members visited the Jubilee School in July and had lots to report!

Jubilee school news

News from Jubilee School May 2011

After a concerted effort, by many generous people, spanning several years and numerous parts of this country and another, the donated school furnishings have arrived safely at the Jubilee School in Narok, Kenya....a very long way from where they started!

 HABARI : NEWS FROM JUBILEE SCHOOL KENYA- MARCH 2011

Since I left Kenya for the US on 7th March 2011 after my five weeks’ visit to Kenya -- and mainly the School, there have been various happenings in the school; notable is the recent participation of the school in the regional sports competition which was held at another School in the central division of Narok County on 25th March 2011. Our boys participated in 400 meter by 400 meter relay while the girls took part in a walk. This was a perfect opportunity for the pupils to better their skills and talents in extra curricular activities. It was also a chance to mingle and exchange topics with students from other schools. Two teachers accompanied the children to the ballgames where students represented their school in the sub zone level. Our school has also sent one of the teachers, Elizabeth Mwizi, to a school’s music training workshop to train in sets of music in preparation for the music festivals which will be held next term. It is hoped that...

I spoke with Fr. Symon again, several days ago and he relayed more interesting information on how things are progressing at the Jubilee School.