Sima passed her Nursing Council exam in Kathmandu and is now actively looking for a job in a rural area.

 Nokukhanya, graduated in December 2015. She is the first person in her family to achieve tertiary education and works as a radiographer.

Smanga graduated in 2015 and is now a Maths teacher in a rural area of South Africa.

 Narmeen is from the West Bank in Palestine. She is a nurse, and hopes one day to "be able to help other students achieve their goal..."

Manju is now a qualified assistant nurse midwife in Nepal

Abed is from the West Bank in Palestine. He is a registered nurse at a hospital in Jerusalem, working in the Paediatric Open Heart Unit, caring for babies with congenital heart defects and diseases. He writes: "I feel very happy to help them getting better through their hard conditions. Thank you JHS again for your bright support"

Carolina graduated as engineer in foreign commerce and customs in Ecuador. She sent us her picture to "share with you one of my biggest achievements, my graduation, which fills me with happiness."

Felister graduated in law from Mzumbe University, in Tanzania. During her studies she has worked as a trainee in the Attorney General Chamber in Dar es Salaam and today is working on a critical analysis of the efficiency of the Child Act Law of 2009.

Manoj graduated in 2010 in Environmental Management. He is the Executive Director of the Jane Goodall Institute in Nepal, which was inaugurated in 2013.

Paul graduated in Social Work and Community Development in 2008. His latest update stated that he was a “Cooperative Development Officer for Agriculture Development in Tanzania” and that he enjoys “working with communities by increasing access of financial services among poor farmers” and to “provide training to cooperatives, groups and association based on good governance and entrepreneurship.”

Erick, JHS's former Journalism student now reports for a Tanzanian  newspaper. He writes features and special reports and recently finished an investigative series on drug addicts in Zanzibar. Erick is among the prestigious 2011 David Astor Journalism Award winners.

Sinthaphone moved to Thailand from his native Laos in 2008 for his studies and graduated top of his class with a degree in law and business. He is now working on a project run by World Vision Organization (Laos) on poverty relief.

Shambhu earned his Bachelor's degree in Population Education in Nepal in 2010.  He is from a small Himalayan village. While still a student, Shambhu would return to his village to volunteer in the Learning Centre, tutoring, mentoring and coaching dozens of profoundly disadvantaged boys and girls. After graduation Shambhu was offered a job at the school in his hometown. He still volunteers at the Learning Centre in the mornings.

South African students Vusi and Dumisane at their graduation. Both studied electrical engineering. Dumisane was one of JHS's first bursary students. He recently contacted our local hero, Brian, in South Africa to invite him to his graduation. The degree that he has earned is the result of further study that he was able to complete after Brian secured him an internship. We are all very proud of Dumisane and Vusi, they both have secured jobs and are clearly, as Brian says, on their way...

Aksone completed her Bachelor's degree in Social Science in 2010. Originally from Laos, Aksone had to move to Thailand for her studies and could only see her family once a year. Before she graduated she began to send her CV to NGOs and government offices in Laos. "It is time to go to my motherland...my vision is getting wider. I am ready to going back home and work for my own country." She wrote at the time. She received several job offers and is now working as a Social Scientist with the Department of Community Development in Laos.