The county governments through the Assembly’s leadership have been requested to mend a law that will enable the offices of the first Ladies to have a budget that will help in solving difficulties mainly early pregnancy and returning  dropped students back to class as a way of empowering the community.

Speaking in Kakamega town during  a mentorship programme to teen mothers from all over the County  who have reintegrated back to school, Kakamega’s first Lady Janet Kassily  Barasa reiterated that the  first ladies in all the counties are doing something quality like for the Lake region economic block, where they’ve a collaboration of working together to help the vulnerable community.

“As first ladies of the lake region economic block we use word of mouth advocacy network. We speak out because we have no other way, especially first spouses, we have no budgets to do so many things and each one of us is doing something in her county to ensure that we fight teen pregnancy”, She  explained.

Consequently, Dr. Janet Kassily added that;

“We need support in our offices, if we can have our agenda sensitive budget, so that we can be able to do activities especially taking care of the vulnerable in the community, the teen mothers, the women, the widows, the youth, then we’ll be able to solve many challenges that face the community”,

Similarly she appreciated a few partners who have come on board in Kakamega especially Too Pressed to Wait Organization, USAID and many others that have collaborated with her foundation in helping the community.

Kakamega First Lady Hands Christmas Gifts to Girls.

“My close working relationship with a few partners has been of importance where by Since 2022 after my collaboration with few non-governmental Organizations,  the numbers of early pregnancies has gone down from 14,000 to now around 9,000 of which is a progress to all of us and therefore Kakamega County is not in the red line like it was initially”, added the first Lady of Kakamega.

At that juncture, Vallerie Khamati a public relation and communication strategist working with Resolve Communications stated that they’re  passionate about connecting communities to solutions and they’ll help in Identifying partners who are already doing something so that they fight the disaster encroaching County governments.

Similarly,  she added that according to the  Kenya demographics health survey,  the number of teenage pregnancies in Kenya,  Kakamega County was rated number three and that’s why they had to start their collaboration with it.

“ We are launching the programme first in Kakamega County because Kakamega County’s first lady has demonstrated her willingness and passion to address this issue in her capacity first as a mother an Educator and of course as the first lady supporting the efforts of the county, we look forward to achieving this together”, finalized the officer from too pressed to wait.

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