Daraja Mean’s Bridge is a one-of-a-kind podcast created to highlight the students and alumni of Daraja Academy, and get to know the inspiring people who believe in their dreams. Daraja Academy is a Kenyan high school created to educate and empower girls of poverty who otherwise would not be in school. The school’s unique teaching model and dynamic empowerment curriculum W.I.S.H. (Women of Integrity, Strength, and Hope) combine to create powerful change-makers. Daraja was founded by Jason and Jenni Doherty, educators from the San Francisco Bay Area in 2009. Since then, hundreds of girls, who...
Daraja 12th grader Jackie and school founder Jason Doherty had the honor of sitting down with Jane Goodall; primatologist, anthropologist, UN Messenger of Peace and member of the World Future Council. Listen as Jane shares her story of following her dream to Africa, studying the chimps at Gombe...
Published 05/17/22
Only at Daraja would girls be so at ease 24 hours before Kenya's 12th grade national examinations. Listen as 12th graders Sharon and Farhia discuss growing up in the Kenyan school system and the KCSE, a three week examination that determines whether they can go to university, what they can study...
Published 04/07/22