Planning the next chapter of ARES

Partners and volunteers met in Kenya in January 2023 to plan how ARES grows.

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Planning the next chapter of ARES

January 2023 brought the ARES team, partners and volunteers together in Kenya for the first time in a while. It began with a meeting in Nairobi and continued with two days of hands-on planning in Laikipia.

Partners meeting in Nairobi, 7 January 2023
Partners meeting in Nairobi, 7 January 2023

On the agenda were the new generation of ARES servers, preparing notebooks for new schools, teacher training, and how to reach far more schools. That work became the ARES Expansion Project.

Working sessions, 9–10 January
Working sessions, 9–10 January
New ARES servers ready for deployment
New ARES servers ready for deployment
Operations Manager Kelvin Gitau and founder Mark Knittel
Operations Manager Kelvin Gitau and founder Mark Knittel

Over the following days the team visited schools across Laikipia. Read about Likii, Loise and the Laikipia County Community Library.