Primary School pupils in Thika Town constituency are set to enjoy boiled eggs every Monday in an initiative sponsored by MP Patrick Wainaina.
The programme dubbed 'Egg Monday' will kick off next week and is aimed at improving the general health of pupils.
The legislator added that the new initiative will also improve class attendance as well as provide income for parents.
[caption caption="Thika Town MP Patrick Wainaina."]
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Mr Wainaina stated that parents would be encouraged to keep poultry in order to supply eggs to schools and would benefit greatly.
"Parents will get an opportunity to sell eggs to schools and some of them will be employed to cook for pupils.
"It is my appeal to parents to start rearing chicken and become suppliers of eggs," he remarked.
The MP added that the programme would also improve the falling education standards in Thika constituency, rekindling memories of free milk in primary school in the 1980’s and 90’s sponsored by former President Daniel Arap Moi.
President Moi’s programme, which was popularly known as Nyayo milk, was meant to improve the health of pupils and encourage school attendance.
The milk packets captured various sporting events like running, boxing, netball, which was meant to inspire primary school children.
In March 2017, the Embu County Government launched a Ksh40 million school milk feeding programme which was inspired by the collapse of a pupil at Witwa Primary School in the semi-arid Mbeere South Sub County, who fainted from hunger during a tour by education officials in 2014.
Embu Education Executive Jamleck Muturi and Assembly Education committee chair Winrose Ngithi both confirmed that the fainting incident was an eye-opener for officials on how hunger was adversely affecting education among school going children.
[caption caption="File Photo of a Nyayo Milk Packet"]
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