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40 The Teacher

PARTNERSHIP-

BASED PLATFORM

TO SUPPORT

TRAINING OF

TEACHERS AND

PRINCIPALS :

BENTA OPANDE

The creativity and resiliency of recovering learning loss and keeping of infections, we urge for continuous
teachers is one of the reasons our schools open, we stand in discussions regarding the health
that the Kenya Women Teachers solidarity with teachers in the quest protocols around teachers and staff
Association is proud of the teaching for safer and healthier working who are more engaged with this age
fraternity in Kenya. conditions. group in both primary schools and
early childhood education
Our teachers do more than just Championing the welfare of
teach. Students often form bonds teachers, Kewota continues to play Ensuring all teachers get their
with teachers and rely on this trust its role in empowering our teachers double vaccination doses is
to ask for advice and guidance, by giving them a voice, continually imperative but above all we must
especially during times of personal calling for safe spaces where maintain the health and safety of
or communal crisis. As has been teachers can work to develop our all teaching and non-teaching staff
demonstrated during the Covid-19 children is at the top of our goal. and environments. To make school
pandemic, our teaching fraternity environments safe, additional health
has scored highly both in and out A few critical issues jump out and hygiene measures should be
of the classroom regarding teacher preparedness as implemented.
our schools grapple with the health
Both teachers and students have challenge. For instance, despite In Nairobi’s primary schools for
experienced isolation, uncertainty, the ongoing national roll-out of example, the availability of waterless
grief, and loss during this time. the vaccination exercise, we are hand sanitizer was associated with

And as the government through cognizant of the fact that children reduced prevalence of water borne
the Ministry of Education and under the age of 12 years cannot be diseases. Children were more likely
the Ministry of Health work with vaccinated. to clean their hands after using the
other education stakeholders in In light of the impending fourth wave toilet if hand sanitizer was available

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