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The joyful freedom of summer camp. On our last night of the annual Camp Ajiri held at a large farm in Kenya, we were walking through a field with our 20 scholars,...
Read more about Ants and Owls The joyful freedom of campI honestly don't know when this shift happened. Was it during the pandemic? Is it the rise of non-stop digital consumption? Or is it just that we are getting older? But somewhere...
Read more about A False SpringTea and Teenagers . . . At Ajiri we try to fix things. High unemployment? We'll create jobs. Children need school fees? We pay school fees. But we can't fix those teenage years....
Read more about (Tea)nagers Growing up and trying to like yourselfAll of these thoughts of adventure make us realize that adventure is a wealthy man's game. We value the physical feats of a climb up Everest while overlooking the very physical and...
Read more about The Great AdventureHow Ajiri tries to give women and girls more choice in their path to motherhood We tend to treat Mother's Day as if it were a birthday—something passively happening and celebrated each...
Read more about Wanting the Choice of MotherhoodWe recently had an introductory meeting with a social media strategist, because yes, we still don't have a social media "plan." And our "brand" is basically a hodgepodge of fonts we found...
Read more about Becoming a Media Machine: Fishing Without a HookWhen we were young(er) and more naive, we thought we could change the world. So we started a company to do just that. We read that women in developing nations tend to...
Read more about It's Not Just the Money, Honey. Reflections on International Women's DayAll the messaging surrounding Valentine's Day has soaked into your skull, leaving you incapable of making a rational, unencumbered choice. We are here, with all of our authentic marketing knowledge, to guide...
Read more about Valentine's Day Gift GuideWe know love can't be manufactured or bought (despite what the best marketing e-mails tell us). But we do believe love can be cultivated. It might look like making committed promises to yourself and to others...
Read more about Making a Contract for Love: Can we manifest a sense of belonging?Like chameleons, teenage survival depends on blending into their environment. This is why the Ajiri scholars, all of whom are orphans, are given pocket money, go to school with new shoes and money...
Read more about Hunting for Chameleons in the DarkSometimes it seems as though we know the end of the story when we've just read the first page. He grew up with his elderly grandparents in Daraja Mbili, home of one...
Read more about Escaping Poverty: Swimming against the tides of circumstanceWhen does a company stop becoming a start-up? At first, I thought maybe we had reached the next phase when we finally had health insurance. Then I thought we had evolved when...
Read more about Working With a Start-Up Mentality a Decade Later
