GWILN: Branch out and be tech-savvy, women told during their day
Let us be the giants for the young ones to stand on and achieve the futureEdinah Kangwana, GWILN Founder.
In a high-powered event attended by founders, health practitioners, women advocates, digital gurus, academicians, government officials,...
Food insecurity, diseases, the true cost of climate change
The persistent absence of sufficient rain in Kenya for the past several seasons continues to have more effects on humans.
In Kiambu County, it has caused most residential areas to become dusty, and the soil...
Integrating traditional medicine in health systems key to attaining UHC
By Harriet Ng’ok
Inadequate access to and cost of modern medicines and drugs to treat and manage diseases in middle- and low-income countries, especially in Africa, may have contributed to the widespread use of traditional...
World’s first malaria vaccine expansion set to save more children’s lives
Malaria remains a primary cause of childhood illness and death in Africa.
Data from World Health Organization denotes that over 476,000 child deaths are recorded every year.
World’s first malaria vaccine, RTS,S/AS01 (commercial name Mosquirix), has, however,...
BOOK REVIEW: Dear Anita
Author: Barack Wandera
Title: Dear Anita
Contact: barackwandera@yahoo.com
Cost: KSh500
Publisher and Year: InterCEN Books, 2022
Reviewer: ...
The Contemporary Woman; too noble to push?
At 43 weeks of her pregnancy, Terry Nyambura, 21 years old, walked into Thika Level 5 Hospital for a checkup seeing that normally, most pregnancies run to a maximum of 40 weeks.
“It seemed to...
Foreign trash turning Kenya into plastic dumpsite
Discarded synthetic apparel still finds its way into imported mitumba bales despite stringent restrictions on plastic waste exportsResearch.
Five East African Community (EAC) nations—Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, and Rwanda—announced a concerted plan in 2016 to...
CEO: Skills, a warrior’s spear for youth employment
For the millions of Kenyan graduands, graduating from TVETS, colleges and universities marks a great milestone in their life. On the flip side, only 25% of them get absorbed in the labor force and...
Untrained teachers, scanty resources cripple JSS weeks after inception
Four weeks into the school term, teachers and students in Junior Secondary School (JSS) in Kenya are still grappling with the lack of proper resources required for successful studies.
Denis Opiyo is one of...
Reminiscing Thogoto, Kenya’s cradle of education
Thogoto, a quiet, cool and moderately populated village in the heart of the Kikuyu area, was not the original name of the village that now boasts tens of learning and other institutions distributed in...
