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The Biotisho Adolescent Nutrition Project is a vast undertaking. It was necessary, therefore, for the program, which disseminates, amongst multiple interventions, nutrition education on dietary diversity and helps establish demonstration gardens among school going and out-of-school adolescents in Samburu Central, to adopt a multi-sectoral approach. Biotisho has succeeded in reaching…

Weekly iron and folic acid supplementation (WIFAS) is one of the evidence-based high impact nutrition interventions that is recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a pre-conception service that should reach vulnerable adolescent girls to address anaemia and its effects. Anaemia in adolescence may cause a wide range of…

SUCCESS STORY 1. Applying the 360° Agri nutrition training Agripina Mukoyani is one of the beneficiaries of the agrinutrition program under the KCDMS project. She is a married female teacher aged 45 years with 5 children. She comes from Hamisi Sub County in virembe, Vihiga. She states that she is…

1. EXCLUSIVE BREAST FEEDING FROM ROSE KHAYEGA UMOJA SANGO LIKUYANI SUBCOUNTY KAKAMEGA COUNTY Rose Khayega is the Vice chair of Umoja Sango AFS Grp from Sango, Likuyani Sub County, Kakamega county. Rose has a daughter Clara Andega a Form 3 Student who gave birth to a baby girl (Shalot Ayala)…

Infant and Young Child Nutrition has been a major challenging task to most caregivers and especially young mothers in most households, as they keep on wondering which is the best kind of diet for their young ones especially when introducing solids to them to weaning assist them grow healthy. Most…

Water sanitation and hygiene has been a major challenge in most households in Kenya. This has made it a nightmare for most adults,caregivers and guardians to maintain required standards of hygiene at their homes, therefore leading to increased illness cases related to poor sanitation and hygiene. Phylis N. Wanjala, 29…

Every morning as he rushes to work, alighting from a matatu or sometimes from a boda boda (motorcycle taxi), Eric Omondi is thinking, planning and debating on how to meet the myriad challenges facing the people under his charge. At the Mwangaza Tumaini Learning Centre in Mukuru Kwa Njenga slums,…

On 14th September 2017, AMREF Kenya and Center for Behavior Change Communication (CBCC) carried out a learning and documentation training as part of the implementation of K-SHIP, a WASH Project implemented by the two organizations and funded by the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) through the Global Sanitation…

In this picturesque land that can easily pass for an open-air theatre ideal for filmmaking, lack of sufficient toilets could be a setback. For quite some time, most inhabitants of the manyattas straddling the expanse in Samburu County have hardly been familiar with the risks associated with lack of pit…

Judy Wanjira Thiongo has her hands full. As the Nutrition Officer for Kandara Sub-County in Muranga County, her job involves providing nutrition services, including Vitamin A supplementation, to 24 dispensaries. Supervising the distribution of Vitamin A is, not the only thing she does, but it ranks highly in her priority…