As many will recall, shortly after the school reopened from its COVID closure, the Nambale Magnet School suffered a devastating fire that destroyed the boy’s dorm that housed 150 students. Mercifully, no one was hurt, and our generous supporters sprang into action to assist in the triage and support the rebuilding of the wing.

Currently the boys are sleeping in classroom space and things are tight, but the new wing will enable them to have a home and additional classroom space that NMS desperately needs ...

Sheryl came to the Nambale Magnet School at five years old from a child headed family. Her oldest sibling was an 11-year-old brother. She had two other brothers, ages 9 and 8.

She was brought to the attention of the NMS social worker by their village government, when the children had been taken to a local children’s rescue center.

When the government intervened, the children had not eaten for two days, the father was selling off the bedding and when the children’s grandmother tried to take them in, their father assaulted her. Through the intervention of Nambale Magnet School staff, the three oldest children were placed in residential school settings and Sheryl was admitted to NMS.

When she arrived, she was emaciated, had severe ringworm ...

On a beautiful fall evening in the height of the fall foliage season in the Litchfield Hills of Connecticut, the Cornerstone Project had our most successful Fall Festival fundraiser ever, netting just over $18,000! At the Hopkins Vineyard, in Warren Connecticut, near the shores of Lake Waramaug, the Cornerstone Project hosted our Sixth Annual Fall Festival.

A delightful evening was enjoyed by all and featured a silent auction and live auction along with informative discussions about the school with Martine Nolletti the founder of the Cornerstone Project and marketing consultant turned Auctioneer for the event, Jamie Rude ...

The Nambale Magnet School is both investing in and embracing technology. The current infrastructure makes it possible to introduce coding lessons in the school facility under the ICT department.

NMS has partnered with Kodris Africa and trained our ICT Academic teacher on coding which is supposed to commence immediately when the school reopens next year for lessons.

Kodris Africa is an interactive online e-learning platform that teaches students a real coding language and how to create algorithms. Extensive research and development has been conducted at both public and private schools to develop a curriculum encouraging student-teacher interaction.

Children from the Nambale Magnet School gained experience from a Kenya newspaper and came out on top in competition! Grade 8 students were able to get experience and a one-on-one audience with news editors from a national newspaper called Taifa Leo.

The newspaper promotes Kiswahili language by offering creating and training on composition in Swahili. Such an experience was a wonderful gift and will go a long way to prepare them for the ever-important 8th grade exams ...