Kericho County’s coordinator of the Kenya Women Teachers Association (KEWOTA) Nancy Rono has said schools should establish special rooms for teachers to breastfeed their babies.
“This is an idea that KEWOTA is pushing all over the country in order to give our female teachers the dignity to do their motherly obligations. The rooms will enable the maids to bring the young kids to the institutions where the mother seeks a small break to breastfeed the young ones, then they are returned home when satisfied,” she said.
Rono, speaking during the launch of KEWOTA branch in Kericho, reiterated that the heads were to only set aside the rooms, which then will be equipped by the association with the requisite items conducive for the purpose.
Accompanied by KEWOTA officials from the Secretariat, Rono said the breastfeeding centres are meant to alleviate frustrations faced by female teachers who are in the period of breastfeeding.
She said the centres will be equipped and decorated beautifully by the association and designed to soothe both the child and the mother.
During the function, the officials also provided various lessons on financial literacy to cushion them against financial miscalculations.
“KEWOTA started a table banking feature after realizing that most teachers were enslaved by huge loans from banks and Saccos with high interest rates. The table banking idea needs a small number of teachers in one school who will assist in supplementing their income,” she added.
The forum urged teachers to use KEWOTA to enroll for the much needed digitization courses which are necessary to handle digitized Curriculum-Based Content (CBC) textbooks, adding that the certificates awarded after finishing the skills for innovation courses are recognized globally.
The officials told teachers that KEWOTA was not a rival to the other trade unions like KUPPET and KNUT but was an association for empowerment.
Moses Okea, an education officer who represented the County Director of Education (CDE), said there are several problems that bedevil teachers and which need concerted efforts to resolve.
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