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Impact of natural disasters on the socio-economic livelihoods in informal settlements in Mathare valley slum in Nairobi county
No full textInvestigation of how Microfinance Institutions Services have Affected SMEs in Kenya: A Case of Nairobi County
No full textEffects of corporate social responsibility on business performance: A case of Equity Bank in Meru County
No full textFactors influencing the performance of district peace committes in conflict managment in Kenya: A case of Kieni Sub-County,Nyeri County
Get PDFA survey of hand washing as a prevention of diarrhea diseases among primary school pupils in Njoro sub- county, Nakuru Kenya.
No full textThe high incidence of diarrhoea disease and other communicable diseases among children due to
poor personal hygiene and sanitation remains a concern on the public health agenda in most
countries. To address the problem efficiently an understanding of knowledge, attitude and
practice among target populations is needed to plan and design behavioural interventions. It is
against this background that the present study was carried out to determine the level of
knowledge and practice of handwashing among children in public and private schools in Njoro
Sub-County, Nakuru County, Kenya. A cross-sectional survey research design of primary
schools in Njoro sub-county was conducted. Cluster, stratified and random sampling techniques
were used subsequently to get a sample of 30 schools, including both public and private, in all
the five divisions in the sub-county. Purposive sample of 30 headteachers were interviewed
while simple random sample of 360 pupils were issued with researcher administered
questionnaires. School conditions and facilities were recorded using observation checklist. Data
was analyzed with the aid of SPSS version 20. Descriptive statistics, percentages, frequencies
and means were used to summarize the findings. Inferential statistics, Chi-square, regression and
correlation were used to check the relationships between variable at a 5% level of significance.
The findings indicated that knowledge, attitudes as well as school conditions have high
influences on handwashing practices among primary school going pupils. Majority of the pupils
(91.4%) demonstrated knowledge on the importance of hygiene, however there was low
observance of handwashing practice. It was established that majority of the pupils 229 (70.9%)
were not washing their hands regularly after visiting the toilet. At least 59.3% of the pupils had
at one time in their lives suffered from diarrhea. School conditions and facilities were noted to
greatly influence handwashing practices among school children. Among the key
recommendations, education stakeholders are supposed to provide adequate facilities and
personnel to facilitate the handwashing practice. Campaigns need to be held frequently to
sensitize the residents as well as the school going pupils on the importance of handwashing to
create awareness as well ensuring their paradigm shift on their attitudes towards the practice. The
findings are useful to all stakeholders such as Ministry of Education, Ministry of Health,
Ministry of Water and Sanitation programmes, Parent Teachers Associations (P.T.A.S.). This
union will foster stronger linkages that will pave the way for collaboration between the Ministry
of Health and school management in ensuring effective handwashing practices among the
children
Factors affecting the adoption of green procurement in an organization: a case study of National Housing Corporation
No full textImpact of the Adoption of Improved Practices on the Kenyan Financial Sector
No full textMost organizations’ functions are based on particular ideology and action plan. Most of these ideas and actions are well thought and researched. The financial sector should not be different. Many organization that impact on the financial sector use well researched and developed practices. This study investigated the practices adopted by these organizations and how they impacted on their organization. This is to aid increased research on better financial methods and improve and encourage linkages between the financial sector and research based institutes and organization
Determinants of Juvenile involvement in criminal behaviour in Majengo Slums-Nyeri County
No full textChallenges students face in academic achievement of the English subject in secondary schools in Thika town sub-county Kiambu county, Kenya
No full textThis study sought to find out the challenges students face in
Academic achievement of the English subject in secondary
schools in Thika Town Sub County, Kiambu County. The study
found out some of the challenges students face in academic
achievement of the English subject and this was viewed in four
broad perspectives that is: in listening skills, speaking, writing
and reading. When a student is not able to perform well in one
skill, the other three skills are affected and hence he or she is
not able to perform in the English subject. An English language
learner may be having a problem in concentrating in class
leading to him/ her, missing out important information, having a
poor handwriting, limited vocabulary or even misspelling words
these are some of the challenges that the study looked into and
came up with appropriate solutions. The researcher used the
Communicative Competence theory, in the research study in
investigating how the English learning skills are essential to the
academic achievement of the English subject. The data was
analyzed using case study design and presented in tables and
figures. The data was collected in November 2015, using
questionnaires. The sample was selected randomly from the
target
population and consisted of two hundred students in
five secondary schools. Various challenges were encountered
during data collection for instance: there were
limited
documents for analysis in obtaining research information :
limited documents for analysis in obtaining in research
information, there was limited time while carrying out the
research in the field and also some participants did not
fully cooperate in answering the questionnaires. The study
concluded that, the different challenges that learners encounter
in the four English learning skills, highly affect their academic
achievement. Finally, the researcher also recommended the
possible solutions in order to improve the academic
achievement of the students in the English subject. For
instance: The Students ought to familiarize themselves with
different vocabularies in order to be able to know any term
that the teacher can say while dictating down words, the
teacher should slow the rate of his/her speech and prolong
vowels to model slow-easy speech also, the students should
read progressively longer segments of reading material to
build
comprehension
skills and finally, Students
should
practice writing and have them indicate which should be
capitalized
