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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…

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…