By Lydia Gichuki Heels4Pads Foundation in partnership with Cigna donated a digital pads dispenser to Dagoretti Special School that will cover each menstruating girl with pads for 3 years. Each girl will have access to pads using a unique individual identification card. Speaking during the launch, Munira Twahir, Founder and process innovator of Ari Dispenser […]
By Raisa Okwaras, Forty-three more children have died from gun violence since the Uvalde slaughter. This brings the total death toll from gun violence to almost double in just one week. Such continues to raise concerns over gun safety and children safety in general. On May 24, 2022, nineteen young children together with two of […]
By Lydia Gichuki Children aged five years and above could soon start receiving the Covid19 vaccine once the Ministry of Health approves the proposal. The Ministry’s proposal to include that category in the list of those eligible for the jab is on the table and could be completed soon. In addition, the government targets to […]
By Lydia Gichuki A recent study by researchers from the Baylor College of Medicine in Texas has indicated that children grow faster during school terms. They said the findings are from a five-year long experiment that included more than 3500 children. In a study published in Frontiers in Psychology, scientists reported that first-year primary school […]
By Raisa Okwaras, A group of women in the White Nile area in Sudan is championing their children’s education by building them classrooms. Jwairya Schools came to life after a group of women in Jwairya would take in donations to build a classroom every year. In the beginning, however, they used impermanent material for the […]