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With 121 students at Daraja, birthdays are a frequent celebration. Unlike American birthdays celebrated with cake, presents, and parties, Daraja girls celebrate with water.

2021 has been a fantastic year filled with new Daraja graduates, new Form 1 students, and new friendships! We are excited to welcome 2022.

As the Daraja girls continue to learn and thrive, we are thankful for the partnerships and supporters that sustain us. Thank you for being on our team to empower girls from poverty to become community leaders.  We are many, but we are one. 

On September 17th, we celebrated the Class of 2020 as they officially graduated from Daraja! Since arriving in 2017, each young woman in the Class of 2020 has poured their hearts and minds into studying and learning. And, they share aspirations to attend university and enter competitive career fields such as electrical engineering, tourism management, or medicine.

This year, out of 412 applicants, approximately 150 girls were selected to interview for a spot at Daraja. Over multiple weeks, Daraja’s founder, Jason Doherty, Daraja’s business manager, Helen Ngunjiri, Daraja’s head of school, Victoria Gichuhi, and a few other rotating team members, traveled across Kenya to meet, listen, and understand the Daraja candidates’ stories: to hear firsthand why they deserve to have a chance at a lifetime of learning.

Earlier in April, the Daraja Form 4s finished their KCSE. For Kenyan students, this examination is the entrance to university. Exam results were released yesterday! Drumroll, please!

Happy International Women's Day! The theme is "Choose to Challenge," and we couldn't think of a better example than Daraja alumna Lilian Tirati, who chose to challenge FGM. Read her story in her own words.

After 10 months of distance learning they've all returned to campus, and it's kind of a miracle. Do you know what happened in Kenya when the pandemic hit?