Jambo, Daylight Partners! – Class Sizes Increase as Daylight Takes New Students Now more than ever Daylight needs your continued support. The COVID epidemic hit the Kenyan economy hard – especially in the poor rural areas. Daylight staff felt compassion for the number of children whose families could no longer afford the $350 a year…
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Jambo, Daylight Partners! – Urgent Update 2021 has had its share of challenges. COVID has impacted Africa in many ways. It was a major cause of a recent recession in Kenya. Signs of recovery are beginning however, in rural West Pokot County, home of Daylight’s main campus, many families have yet to feel the recovery…
How does our garden grow? Very well indeed! With school back in session, our team at Daylight has been very busy tending to the garden and providing the students with many vegetables and other nutritious food. Jaluo does much of the farming and gardening at Daylight and we are so thankful for his hard work…
We are so happy to share that the Daylight staff was able to get their first vaccine recently! The group traveled together to the Kapenguria County Referral Hospital to receive their first dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine on August 23rd. They will return in November to receive their second dose. Currently only 27.8% of…
In 2019, our Computer Lab was built with financial support and a construction team from Autumn Ridge Church in Rochester in partnership with Kenyan parents and local Kenyan contractors. It continues to be a very important part of our students’ learning. Our students learn typing skills, and how to use Microsoft Word and search for…
As you may recall, our 8th graders took their National Tests earlier this spring. As they go off to Secondary school in July, we wanted to highlight that their high tests scores ranked Daylight School as the 4th highest scores in Pokot County! Please keep these amazing new high school students in your thoughts and…
“Kenya and Daylight School feel so much closer now.” The quote above is from a long time Daylight School enthusiast in the USA. The comment captures how the shared experience of a pandemic in 2020 made for closer ties between the Daylight School community and its supporters in the USA. Hardship and worry have been…
On Saturday, May 8th, we celebrated the 13-year anniversary of the first day students attended class at Daylight School! What was once just open land has become a bustling hive of activity, laughter, learning, hard work and love. We held our U.S. Board Summit that day and celebrated all that has been accomplished by Daylight…
Jambo, Daylight Partners! – Good Luck and Farewell 8th Graders! On Monday, March 22nd, our 8th grade students will be taking their National Exams. These yearly exams, taken by all 8th grade students, were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The exams are usually given in the fall. The staff held a party…
Jambo! Daylight Partners! A New Beginning! It is a new school year at Daylight and there are happy voices and the campus is once again a flurry of activity! We look forward to sharing more stories and highlights of our students. To the right, some of our younger students were doing some painting recently. They…