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2023-2024 Ajiri Impact Report

by Kate Holby September 12, 2024

2023-2024 Ajiri Impact Report

This year gave them more spaces and more programs to experience joy and silliness and the freedom to let go. It is hard to quantify in an Impact Report what that exactly means. But we can tell you what it looks like. It looks like greeting every outing with enthusiasm and earnest curiosity. It looks like our kids not thinking twice about digging in with cow dung and mud to smear a house. It looks like late nights of completing puzzles at the computer camp and long afternoons in the office settling into a good book.

 

Read our annual Ajiri Foundation Impact Report here. 




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