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…

It was a stroke of genius to find the intersection of early childhood development and education (ECDE) centres and children’s health. This is the verdict of an education official in Murang’a County. Beatrice Nyambura Mwangi, the Murang’a South Sub-county ECDE Coordinator, describes the day Vitamin A Supplementation (VAS) programme landed…

Nancy Wambui Kamande is a model citizen of the world. The long-time Early Childhood Education Development (ECDE) teacher is not just content knowing what is right and beneficial to society, she also goes out of her way to take action. When Nancy first heard of the Scale Up of Vitamin…

Murang’a County is working hard to be able to sustain Vitamin A Supplementation (VAS) programme in the county when partners exit in the future. According to the County Nutrition Co-ordinator, Nancy Waitherero Mwangi, the partnership between the Government, Nutrition International (NI), and Centre for Behaviour Change and Communication (CBCC) has…

As a mother of three beautiful children, Grace Njoki has taken it upon herself to talk to other mothers about Vitamin A. With twins still in the course of taking their Vitamin A doses and an older son who faithfully attained all prescribed paediatric landmarks, Grace can confidently talk to…

“One of the reasons anzilisha is so successful is the way it has empowered community health volunteers (CHVs) with DigiSomo Talking Book devices,” These are the words of Henry Mukuna, the Luanda Sub-County Senior Public Health Officer in Vihiga County. “DigiSomo Talking Book helps CHVs to deliver accurate information to…

When Doreen Oyiko Omukokwa, a Community Health Volunteer (CHV) leaves home every weekday morning, the most important thing she carries is a small talking book device called DigiSomo Talking Book. It could be she is heading out to the Emuhaya Sub-County Hospital or to the field to talk with clients…

They did not call it “The Golden Rule” for nothing. According to Samuel Kariuki, one of those designated as Natural Leaders in the pursuit of making the whole of Naivasha sub-County open-defecation free (ODF), the enormity of “Love your neighbour as yourself” as spoken by Jesus Christ in Luke 10:27…

On November 17, 2017, sixty-six villages in Naivasha Sub-County celebrated achieving open defecation-free (ODF) status just two days shy of the World Toilet Day (WTD). In a way, the pursuit of ODF status had been their Mt Everest and the certificates the evidence that they had reached the peak. It…

Kesia Wangari is a grateful woman. She has gratitude to a whole village that came to her rescue when she did not have a toilet or a latrine. For the longest time, she bore the shame of not having either. When the Kenya Sanitation and Hygiene Improvement Programme (K-SHIP), through…