Daraja Academy
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Daraja Academy is a free secondary school located outside of Nanyuki, Kenya. It is the first project of the Carr Education Foundation, a registered 501(c)3 non-profit based in California's Bay Area
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[edit] The Carr Education Foundation
The Carr Education Foundation was formed in February of 2006 by Jason and Jenni Doherty. As founder and president, they are backed by a board of trustees comprised of educators, doctors, and professionals with accumulated decades of experience in international stewardship and aid. From the Daraja Academy's webpage, the mission of the foundation is
the creation of schools with curriculums that focus on the core subjects of mathematics, science, reading/writing, and social science as well as on the environment, technology, and other life skills areas...[as well as] advocate for an education that meets the needs of the entire student; an education designed to prepare students to meet the every day challenges they face: poverty, employment, nutrition/hunger, and environmental preparedness.[1]http://daraja-academy.org/content/view/17/32/
Jason Doherty was interviewed on December 7, 2007 by the Global Issues Initiative, a podcast series created by students from the Woodside Priory School. In the interview he extensively talks about the creation of the Daraja Academy.
[edit] The Daraja Academy
The Carr Education Foundation employs the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) standards, along with a number of other components in keeping with their mission, as the framework for Daraja Academy's educational curriculum (4) http://daraja-academy.org/content/view/12/26/. The school's studies will provide a particular focus on the specific occupational interests of each of the students. Daraja Academy will also house an electronic cyber-classroom where Daraja students will collaborate internationally on on projects with other sister schools outside of Kenya, and a school garden and farm that will instruct students on sustainability and instill environmentally-friendly practices. Daraja Academy will also operate an Educational Timeshare program where students from developed countries are invited to a two week workshop at the school and work with Daraja students.
[edit] Connection to the Baraka School
In July of 2007, Jason and Jenni traveled to Tanzania and Kenya to find a home for their school. After searching, they came across the empty campus of the Baraka School, featured in the 2005 documentary The Boys of Baraka. The school had been used as an outpost by the Baltimore City School District to educate 7th and 8th grade boys from Baltimore, Maryland until it closed in 2003 due to heightened security. Jason and Jenni purchased the unused campus to make it the grounds for the Daraja Academy.
[edit] Daraja Clubs
[edit] Footnotes
[edit] References
- ^ Daraja Academy webpage
