Over 3,000 school girls from Nyamira County are set to receive sanitary towels in an exercise that is funded by Dr. Joy Kerubo Foundation.
The foundation’s proprietor Joy Kerubo, who is also eyeing Nyamira Women Representative seat said the programme will be rolled out in April 2016, and will target all public primary schools.
“One of my objectives is to see our girls staying in school during their menstrual cycle. I will roll a programme this April and we will target at least 3,000 girls from our public primary and schools,” she said.
“We want them to stay in school during that period of the month so that they get to catch up with their colleagues make students. The programme will also seek to reach an additional 500 secondary school girls from vulnerable families before the end of the year,” Kerubo added.
The US based doctor challenged girls to take the advantage and compete with their male counterparts in the national exams.
“I think the fact that we are reaching them so that they stay in school, we expect nothing but convincing performances from them in national exams,” Kerubo said during an exclusive interview with the reporter.
Kerubo said she will continue supporting free medical checkups for Nyamira residents, and revealed a planned tour by a host of medical experts from USA during the April holidays.
"My medical programme is also intact. We will be having major medical checkup exercises across the county during the April holidays and I will be joined by a team of fifty volunteering doctors,” she said.