More than 200 girls from Tonga DEB Primary School in Nyamaiya Ward, Nyamira County received sanitary towels on Wednesday, February 19, 2026, to help them remain in school during their menstrual periods and keep up with their male counterparts in their studies.
Nyamira County Woman Representative Jerushah Momanyi compared the life of a girl child to an egg that should be handled with care to avoid breaking and asked parents and teachers to provide them with enough guidance and counselling services that will equip them with life skills to enable them cope with and fight social challenges as they grow.
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She asked teachers to inform the girls about their unique body developments in the process of their adolescent metamorphosis and learn to love and own the changes like bulging cheeks, enlargement of the breasts, and widening of waistlines, instead of getting ashamed of them and end up hiding at home to avoid the public, and finally drop out of school.
“Let them understand that they are wonderfully made and appreciate their bodies as being from God to own and take care of them,” she said.
The Woman Representative, whom West Mugirango MP Steve Mpgaka flanked, reiterated her commitment to empowering the girl child through support for the girl child’s education programs funded by the National Government Affirmative Action Fund (NGAAF).
During the meeting, she issued tents, posho mills and cash worth shillings 40 million to different Women and Widows ‘groups to enable them start and support the small businesses that will earn them money to educate their families.
Stephen Mogaka lauded the Woman Representative for the good development initiative in the county and promised to chip in with Twitg Financing to help small-scale traders.
He asked them to form table banking groups to help them raise money and use it as security to obtain bank loans for development.
By Enock Okong’o
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