Description: Beauty comes with responsibility, whether at a personal or beyond. Cecilia Mwangi, Miss World Kenya 2005 has devoted her limelight-life to fighting a somewhat disregarded health menace that has afflicted Kenya’s poor families leaving them helpless and unproductive: jiggers. Jiggers as they be are a result of poor hygiene and poverty according to this beauty queen who has since established a trust for the anti jigger campaign called AHADI (Swahili translation for ‘hope’) Kenya Trust. In this story, we accompany Cecilia to a poor area in Kenya’s Eastern Province.
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@ Mirielle Kimwethi...I have lived in Kenya for 27 years and neither I nor any member of my family has had a single jigger. It is generalizations like those that lead to stereotyping of Africans which I had had more than enough of!!! Kindly be more specific next time.
Celicia is doing a great job though...Keep it up.
Celicia is doing a great job though...Keep it up.
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October 27, 2009
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Jiggers are awful and anyone who has lived in a third world country has had at least one.
I was wondering, however, what the AHADI trust does after they have given their temporary aid. It does not seem feesable to keep helping families in need. At some point, it seems as though the family will have to start taking their own initiative when it comes to their hygiene. Does the AHADI foundation promote the understanding and teach families a newer, cleaner way of life?
How would you promote an understanding or a change in people who are struggling due to the sacrifices they make to survive?
I was wondering, however, what the AHADI trust does after they have given their temporary aid. It does not seem feesable to keep helping families in need. At some point, it seems as though the family will have to start taking their own initiative when it comes to their hygiene. Does the AHADI foundation promote the understanding and teach families a newer, cleaner way of life?
How would you promote an understanding or a change in people who are struggling due to the sacrifices they make to survive?
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July 01, 2009
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