lactating teachers are a happy lot after the Kenya Women Teachers Association KEWOTA launched breastfeeding centres in Kirinyaga County.

According to the KEWOTA National Chairperson Modesta Akaki, the Programme is expected to ease off and facilitate lactating Teachers who have had a hard time splitting time between child care and teaching.

Speaking during the Launch of two breastfeeding centres at Kiamutugu Boys High School and Gachatha Primary School in Kirinyaga, the KEWOTA National Treasure Jacinta Ndegwa said the female teachers have had to at times rent an extra room near the school to breastfeed.

She noted that there’s been a rise in bousehelps abusing children- something she said can now be avoided with the lactating centres.

The Association plans to spread the programmes to schools throughout the country and has called on Women Reps to partner with them.

The Kenya Women Teachers Association is a welfare organization that enhances the living standards of women in the teaching profession by providing avenues for professional, economic, and personal development.

The Kenya Women Teachers Association was first registered in 2007. the association was founded by women teachers who wanted a strategic community to bring together women working in the education sector, and deliberate on ways to address and advocate for their needs, specific to the female gender, and to provide an avenue for women teachers to grow professionally, economically and personally.

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