The cure for jiggers is soap and water. The prevention for many ailments is hand washing as we all know.
Simple hygiene at all levels what should be taught in all schools.
Lucy is right. And now that men in centro are saving money courtesy of Mututho laws, let them buy the children shoes. Wawache maneno.

She is right. Shoes do mitigate jiggers in that mashinani soil.

Robin..a pair of shoes can cost as low as 50bob.but the kid will wear them for upto 3months.A meal of 50bob will hardly last 5 hours..If you look at the issue more rationally it makes alot of sense.

@for sport, get real brother! How much is a set of complete school uniform? Can it go for less than ksh 500? Is it not mandatory? Are u suggesting we abolish this "EXPENSIVE" requirement so that our poor rural kids can feed? Dont allow antipathy towards the 1st lady obscure rationality....

I think she is right. I think schools put too much emphasis on the 'uniform' than on pupils health. There are plastic shoes, the very brightly coloured shoes that are also very cheap and I have seen children from very poor backgrounds wearing them at home. These can save pupils these jigger troubles. But they cannot be allowed to school because of 'policy'. They do not 'match' the official uniform hence cannot be allowed. The pupil is accepted without shoes than with these type of shoes.

She has tossed the ball into minister ongeris desk, he should mull over it apart from the annual kcpe and private schools ritual.