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Meet Joachim, a farmer and father of 5. He was once an out grower seed producer for Mbozi Highland Seed Company and lives in Ukwile village in Songwe. Before the AVISA project, Joachim had limited knowledge on improved groundnut seeds of new variety and good agronomic practices in groundnut farming.…

Meet Aneth, a wife, mother of 6, grandmother to 30 and most of all, a proud farmer. She lives at Ukwile village in Mbozi together with her husband and 3 of her young grandchildren. They live on a 4-acre farm, where she grows maize, groundnuts and common beans. Aneth at…

Right from the start, Biotisho was evidently a vast and ambitious program. What with the intention of reaching three thousand adolescents in Samburu Central! 1 . The whole school approach enabled the program to reach a critical mass of adolescents. While it would have seemed reasonable, under those circumstances, to…

Getting pregnant and consequently dropping out of school has traditionally knocked the stuffing out of many Kenyan girls. The combination of shock and shame, underlain by ostracization by society, has often been a blow so huge that few girls ever again raise their heads and get back to fulfilling their…

Hope. Without it life loses meaning. And such was the case for Asha Lesuyai. The 17-year old student at Loosuk Mixed Secondary School had just cleared Form Three in the year 2019 when she discovered she was pregnant. By the time she entered Form Four the following year, she was…

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…