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Life skills are abilities and strategies for adaptive and positive behavior that enable individuals to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of everyday life and children should be taught and facilitated to acquire life skills through schools. We are working with the schools and the local communities to strengthen these skills. Parents and communities [...]

School feeding programs contribute to decreased hunger, which helps children concentrate on their studies. Such programs motivate parents to enroll their children in schools and alleviate short-term hunger in malnourished or otherwise well-nourished school children. This helps to increase the attention and concentration of learners, thereby producing gains in cognitive function and learning. Through our [...]

During the period between February and March 2017, we visited schools in Isiolo where children were being taught the importance of personal hygiene and sanitation and the implications of poor hygiene. We joined forces with the health teachers and took the children through a session of proper hand washing and general cleanliness. We also had [...]

We took the ladies through an informative and educative half day seminar. The sessions equipped the ladies with financial literacy skills as well as access to information. During the sessions each lady committed into starting an income generating activity.

Kenya’s population is largely young. Persons aged 19 years and below account for more than half of population while those aged 15 years and below form 45% of country’s population (census, 2009). Young people especially girls have unique health and development needs, they are faced by enormous challenges such as teenage pregnancy which often [...]

We visited schools to ensure that the schools provide a conducive learning environment for the disabled children. Unfortunately most schools did not have facilities such as ramps and other amenities to adequately to the needs of these special children.