By Raisa Okwaras Article 29 of the constitution of Kenya clearly states that every person, including a child, has the right to freedom and security, including the right not to be treated or punished in a cruel, inhuman, or degrading manner. Yet, children face cruelty and inhumanity while going about their day-to-day activities, hence interfering […]
Ujuzi wa lugha zaidi ya moja kwa watoto ni njia mojawapo ya kuwakuza na kuwawezesha kuwasiliana na watu wengi. Baraza la mawaziri la Uganda, lilipitisha utekelezaji wa kongamano ya East African Community (EAC) hapo tarehe 5 Julai. Kongamano hilo limekuwa likisisitiza Uganda kupitisha Kiswahili kama lugha ya Taifa, hii ikiwa njia moja ambayo itaweza kuleta […]
By Raisa Okwaras The Gambia has become the first African country to make a progressive step by launching the first digital immunization registry in Africa. This journey had begun six years ago when the plan to create a new Health Management Information System (HMIS) started. In 2016, the Gambian Ministry of Health signed a Memorandum […]
By Raisa Okwaras The Ministry of Health yesterday released new statistics which reveal that Kenya ranks third-highest in the world in teenage pregnancies. According to the statistics, one in every five women adolescents between the ages of fifteen and nineteen are already teen mothers or are pregnant with their first child. The statistics also show […]
Shirika la Plan International, pamoja na Kaunti ya Homa Bay wameshirikiana na Chama cha Walemavu wa Kimwili cha Kenya (APDK) na kutoa msaada wa vifaa kwa watoto Thelathini na sita wenye ulemavu. Vifaa hivyo vyenye thamani ya KSh milioni 1.3 ni pamoja na viti maalum (viti vya magurudumu), vifaa vya kusimama, viatu vya mifupa na buti, […]
By Raisa Okwaras The International Justice Mission (IJM) identified and trained over a hundred detectives from three selected counties in the Kenyan coast on how to identify and combat child sex trafficking. The region has been on the spotlight over the past years for various forms of the vice, which continues to destroy the lives […]
Kufuatia ghasia za baada ya uchaguzi wa mwaka wa 2007/2008,Tume ya Uchunguzi kuhusu Ghasia za Baada ya Uchaguzi (CIPEV), ilirekodi kesi 900 za unyanyasaji wa kijinsia unaofanywa na maafisa wa usalama, vikundi vya wanamgambo na raia dhidi ya wanaume, wavulana, wanawake na wasichana katika muktadha wa unyanyasaji mkubwa, uhamishaji wa watu wengi na vifo zaidi […]
By Raisa Okwaras According to the SMART Survey conducted in 2018, one in every four children under five years old in Kajiado county is stunted. In addition, one in every ten is wasted and twenty-two in every one hundred are underweight. The survey attributes the stunting, wasting, and children being underweight to low uptake of […]
By Raisa Okwaras, The rise in cases of child labor in Bomet county continues to raise concerns to the general public. This came in following the interview of Bomet County Commissioner (CC) Beverly Opwora on Saturday, July 2, 2022. The interview brought to light the fact that some parents in the county have been engaging […]
By Raisa Okwaras According to the Kenya Demographic Health Survey (KDHA) (2014), approximately fifty-two in a thousand children under five die from preventable and treatable conditions and causes every year. In addition, there is a high maternity mortality rate in Kenya with most mothers dying of complications like eclampsia, post-partum hermitage, and puerperal sepsis. The […]