Author: KNEC notes and Past Papers

Enforcing laws on child rights. Educating children about their rights through the curriculum. Empowering community leaders and local administration. Organizing lobby groups at community levels. Setting help /reporting desks at community levels. Associated life skills Negotiation — Get the parent’s Read More …

To improve education i.e. children have to be informed of their rights. To reduce child prostitution. To avoid children ending up getting involved in drug abuse. To discourage early marriages by young children. Children can end up knowing money at Read More …

Negotiation Assertiveness Effective communication Decision making empathy

Millions of Kenyan children cannot attend school. The governments own estimates admit that most of the more than four million children out of school are child workers (ANPPCAN Kenya). Child rights crisis has many different causes, economic, political and cultural, Read More …

DEFINITION OF TERMS Child –according to the laws of Kenya a child is a person below the age of 18 years. However, according to the international labor organization convention number 138 of 1996 .The minimum age of admission for employment Read More …

These are those practices that increase the risk of acquiring the virus. They include: Unprotected sex Wife inheritance Sharing of cutting instruments during male and female circumcision Use of unsterilized instruments Being unfaithful to one’s partner Multiple sexual partners Burial Read More …

Skills Self-awareness Problem solving Negations Coping with stress Coping with emotions Creative thinking Critical thinking Values Humility Respect Tolerance Responsibility Honesty Peace

This entails assisting those infected when they are unable to do things for themselves e.g. cooking, washing them, giving them medicine, dressing wounds, sun bathing etc. The care providers should however take precautions to avoid infection, especially by avoiding direct Read More …

Myths are twisted “truths” or a story or belief used to explain a certain happening. Myths are passed on from one generation to another. A misconception is a piece of information, which may contain just a little truth to support Read More …

MEANING OF HIV AND AIDS • HIV means (human immunodeficiency virus) which causes AIDS. • AIDS means (acquired immunodeficiency virus) WAYS THROUGH WHICH HIV IS TRANSMITTED Blood transmission. Sexual activity. Sharing of objects i.e. syringes. Breastfeeding of baby by affected Read More …