What’s Hiding in Always Pads? In August 2014 Women’s Voices for the Earth commissioned testing of four types of Always menstrual pads, manufactured by Procter & Gamble. The certified laboratory STAT Analysis Corporation analyzed the products for the volatile organic compounds. These data represent the first publicly available test results of this kind of Read more…
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Kebs launches probe into P&G sanitary products
The Kenya Bureau of Standards (Kebs) has initiated an investigation into US multinational Procter & Gamble’s (P&G) Always brand of sanitary pads following consumer complaints. Several users have come out to complain about the quality and negative reactions from using some of the company’s products. The move by the standards agency could result in the Read more…
Papistop Reviews
Does the ointment really work against warts and papillomas? Warts not only look ugly, but they can also hurt quite a bit under certain circumstances. Depending on where they are found, they also cause a certain amount of suffering that affects the psyche. One fact is that some people are more affected by them Read more…
How Kenyan Non-profits can mobilize funds through CSR
Many Kenyan companies, including top 500 firms like KCB Foundation and Safaricom Foundation, have long engaged in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities. This established practice in Kenya has led to significant societal contributions. CESRA, a Kenya-based organization, has developed a structured framework to promote CSR activities. Their passionate efforts have led numerous organizations in Kenya Read more…
Huawei Kenya donates 50 laptops to Beyond Zero for medical safaris
The First Lady of Kenya Margaret Kenyatta recently received the first batch of 50 Huawei Matebook X Pro laptops from Stone He, CEO of Huawei Kenya. The laptops will be used primarily for the Beyond Zero Medical Safaris, as well as in Beyond Zero Operations and Beyond Zero Mobile clinics, helping improve the efficient Read more…
OUR EARTH IN 2050
An 11 years old girl named Ashley Njeri Chege, from Nakuru, Kenya, records an original speech from her own imagination about the environment and on the future of our earth in 2050. What she thinks the world will be when she is 43 years old.
Nakuru rounds up and dumps street children in Baringo
Nakuru county is on the spot after its enforcement officers allegedly dumped 41 street children in Chemusus Forest in Eldama Ravine, Baringo County on Wednesday night. Reports indicate that the officers rounded the street urchins aged between 12 and 26 and promised to take them to school before bundling them into waiting vehicles. Read more…
The Sexual Offences Act Kenya
In 2006 The Sexual Offences Act was enacted after a great and animated debate spearheaded by various women organizations and orchestrated mainly by female MPs in the Parliament. New legal definitions were created and mandatory and harsh penalties provided. The Penal Code was amended and offenses of rape; sexual assault; compelled or induced indecent Read more…
Government plans to close orphanages
By Jennifer Kaberi For a long time institutionalization of children in orphanages and other care institutions was a major part of child social welfare services. Institutions were viewed as a place of refuge, where vulnerable children could get the help they needed. However recent studies show that institutionalization of children have a life long effects Read more…
Google grants Sh200m for top Kenyan non-profits
(Google East Africa policy and government relations manager Mike Murungi, Youth ministry official Julius Musau, industrialist Manu Chandaria and Tegla Loroupe Foundation founder Tegla Loroupe at the launch of the first African Google Impact Challenge in Nairobi May 23, 2018. PHOTO | DIANA NGILA | NMG ) Technology Firm Google has unveiled a Sh200 million Read more…
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