A family in Doha, Qatar, can now breathe a sigh of relief after the 32-year-old perfectly healthy and normal son learned how to bathe without external assistance. The man who is believed to be the family heir had shown symptoms of slow development, but his parents started getting concerned after he turned 30 while still […]
For the last 12 months, Lucy (not her real name) wakes up at 5 am and leaves her Thika home to the Nairobi CBD where she runs a boutique shop. She won’t be back home until 8 pm in the evening, just in time for dinner. This is the routine that the mother of four […]
The Government of Kenya has taken steps to bring to an end the problems faced by domestic workers of Kenyan origin in the Middle East. Following numerous cases of murder by employers, Kenya has acquired a temporary morgue that will be used to ‘house’ the murdered until their families can raise monies to fly the […]
Education Cabinet Secretary George Magoha has said that the Competence Based Curriculum works out smoothly if parents employ graduate househelps. Speaking while on a tour of Western Kenya, Magoha said that homes with competent househelps were having an easy time with CBC, and only those with class 2 dropouts were having a hard time. “Every […]
An increasing number of men are now considering taking up jobs as househelps following an acute shortage of jobs in Kenya. With a declining job market, an economy that is growing only on paper, inflation that is faster than Eliud Kipchoge and taxes that feel like armed robbery, Kenya men have found themselves with little […]
Tears, panic, desperation and chest pains have rocked many households in Kenya as the current transfer window of house helps closes, with many househelps opting to cut ties with their employers. Reports indicate that most househelps have opted to cut off their toxic employers, leaving over 240,000 families stranded with no sense of order or […]
Almost all the 267,000 househelps working in Kenyan households have termed their work environments toxic and dysfunctional. The domestic workers who play a critical role in running of the country have ended up getting the short end of the stick as their employers who are always complaining about their working conditions perpetuate the same conditions […]
