Mtoto yeyote aliye chini ya miaka 12 nchini Kenya sasa anachukuliwa kuwa hana uwezo wa kutenda kosa la jinai. Tangu mwaka wa 2001, Kenya imepata maendeleo makubwa katika kukuza haki za watoto, ikiwa ni pamoja na kuweka sera, mifumo na miundo ya kusaidia malezi ya watoto, ulinzi na ushiriki. Hata hivyo, bado kumekuwa na mapungufu […]
By Raisa Okwaras Cadbury on Friday, July 8, 2022, launched a digital library full of children’s books entailing African stories to boost the reading culture of African children by reading books that reflect their truths. Dubbed #inourownhands, the campaign brought together authors from different parts of the African continent. They teamed up to publish a […]
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 […]