Education CS Ezekiel Machogu has said that schools will receive capitation funds by Friday, June 9, 2023. This comes after school heads raised an alarm over food shortage in schools saying they might soon be forced to close. The Cs was speaking on Wednesday when answering questions from Members of Parliament who queried him on […]
To reduce complications and deaths during delivery, Meru County government has rolled out an initiative to rally pregnant mothers to seek antenatal care. This initiative is a collaboration between the county government and Child, an organization that champions maternal and newborn health. This initiative dubbed ‘Team mum pregnant women groups aims to decrease the risk of complications […]
About 315,000 grave violations against children in conflict or war were verified by the United Nations between 2005 and 2022 according to UNICEF. More than 120,000 children were killed or maimed.105, 000 others recruited or used by armed forces or armed groups, more than 32,500 were abducted and more than 16,000 children were subjected to […]
A digital biometric-based vaccination management system for newborn children has been launched in Kenya. The biometric was developed by the Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri), NEC Corporation ( a Japanese multinational information technology and electronics corporation), and Nagasaki University in Japan. With this, medics will be now tracking children’s vaccination until they attain five years. […]
In Nandi County, boarding schools are struggling to keep students in school due to a serious food shortage. This has been occasioned by the high cost of living that is being witnessed in the country. The situation has been made worse by the government’s failure to disburse funds to schools coupled with parents struggling to […]
The Ugandan parliament has passed a bill that increases paternity leave from four to seven days for male workers. The MPs said they borrowed a leaf from Kenya that accords male working employees two weeks for paternity leave, New Vision reported. …it is important that more time be accorded to male employees to help their […]
At least 6,841 children were reported missing in Kenya in the last 10 months alone according to the data from the government. This was revealed by Labour Cabinet Secretary Florence Bore during the commemoration of International Missing Children Day yesterday. She added that 1,296 have been reunited with their families so far. However, she said, […]
A recent report by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a United States public organization, shows that climate change has dire physical and mental health implications for children. They include elevated rates of respiratory diseases, organ failure, seizures, and increased infection rates, For instance, the organization says, children cannot regulate their body temperature as efficiently as […]
More than 7 million children under the age of 5 in Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia are currently malnourished and are in need of urgent nutrition support according to UNICEF. In addition over 1.9 million children are at risk of dying from severe malnutrition. This has been occasioned by the drought that has been termed as […]
A family from Lugala Village in Khwisero Constituency, Kakamega County is mourning the death of their one-and-a-half-year-old baby died in mysterious circumstances. Her body was found on the rooftop of a neighbor’s toilet on Sunday two days after disappearing from her home on Friday. It was reported that Gloria Andayi disappeared when her mother Velma […]