There’s still room to RSVP for our upcoming Fund-A-Need Benefit on March 26! Email your RSVP’s with full contact information and number of attendees to info@daraja-academy.org
We hope to see you there! For more information on the event, click here to see the full invitation.
Thanks to volunteer Matt Orcutt, we have a video of the Daraja girls singing the school anthem. Written by the inaugural class of 26 girls, they performed it on camera for all the world to see how much the school means to them. And they’re great singers too!
Enjoy.
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To RSVP for the event, send an email to info@daraja-academy.org – Please include your name, number of attendees, and contact information. We look forward to seeing you there as we work together to fund a new water project at the Daraja campus!
A lot has been made in the last year about the successes of Facebook and Twitter as modes of communication–and not just for meaningless communication, but the type that can empower change. Organizations like Charity: Water have very effectively utilized this powerful form of spreading a message of hope.
We at Daraja Academy would like to step up our own involvement in Social Networking this holiday season by initiating a Facebook Holiday Drive. The concept is simple: my name is Mark Lukach, I am a board member for the school, and I have 500 friends on Facebook. If I am able to convince each of those 500 friends to donate just $5 over the next month, then I will raise $2,500, which is enough to sponsor a student at Daraja for an entire year of school. Our first academic year has finished, and for the remaining weeks of 2009 our administration in Kenya will be eagerly conducting admissions interviews to find 25 new girls to add to the Daraja family. While they are hard at work, I figure that I can be doing my part here in the United States, by updating my Facebook status, tweeting about Daraja, and in general, spreading the Daraja message–to involve more people in our social web.
Music class is an important part of daily life at Daraja Academy. In the video below, taken from early on the in the school year, the students sing a beautiful version of “Life Is But A Dream” in the round, led by their music teacher Miss Catherine.
Music lessons have advanced to the point where the students now have, with tremendous pride, written the Daraja Academy school song. While a video of the girls singing the song is not yet available, the lyrics are reproduced below. The poetic beauty of the lyrics needs no introduction. We look forward to sharing a performance of the song on this blog soon!
Stay connected and learn about what the girls are doing!
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