SIAYA OCTOBER 13, 2015 (CISA) – More than 509 children in Busia and Siaya counties who dropped out of school after being affected by jiggers have resumed learning following intervention from a church organization.
The children were treated by the Heart For Kenya, a Christian group working with the Free Pentecostal Fellowship in Kenya (FPFK).
Bunyala East FPFK Bishop Gabriel Ouma said majority of the jigger victims had been left under the custody of their ageing grandparents after their parents succumbed to Aids.
“The increase in the number of HIV and Aids prevalence rate has seen a rise in child-headed households, a situation that has forced them to desert school in search of cheap labour at the beaches so as to earn their daily bread,” Bishop Ouma told The Star Newspaper October 12.
Bishop Ouma said that the increase in the number of HIV and Aids prevalence rate has seen a rise in child-headed households, a situation that has forced them to desert school in search of cheap labour at the beaches so as to earn their daily bread.
The Christian group has been taking care of 1,500-orphaned children, 509 of whom had dropped out of schools because of jiggers.
“We have managed to educate some of the children up to the university with scores of them joining technical training colleges to pursue the courses of their choice as well as teacher training colleges,” said the cleric.
