By Boniface Mulu
Kitui County, Kenya: This year’s (49th) African Child Day was celebrated in Kitui County, Kenya early. The event took place on Sunday, June 8, 2025 at the Mutomo School for the Deaf within Kitui County’s Mutomo District.
African Child Day is observed on June 16 every year but in Kitui County it was observed early under the theme of Planning and budgeting for children’s rights: Progress since 2010.
Hundreds of schoolchildren attended the ceremony where cooking, blood donation, tree growing and first aid demonstration were the event’s activities.
In his speech, Kitui Development Centre official, Mr. Erick Nyamai highly appreciated their partners, the children, the parents and the teachers among others for having attended the event well.
Nyamai is also a Kenya Youth Federation official. And he is also a Wendo Family Foundation official.
The Mutomo Divisional Curriculum Support Officer (CSO), Mr. Benjamin Syengo also addressed the function among many others. He highly thanked the event’s organisers.
And he also highly thanked the parents for having attended the event. “We know that you love your children. God bless you a lot. The children are ours and we love them and we are loving them,” he said.
The event held at Mutomo School for the Deaf was organised by the Kitui Development Centre (KDC) and the Wendo Family Foundation in partnership with the Kitui County government, Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS), Compassion International, Kenya Youth Federation (KYF), Mutomo Mission Hospital, Kyatune Special Primary School and SMPi Enterprises.
Commendable efforts to Wendo Family fraternity members, Kenya redcross kitui, Compassion international, county and national government of Championing for inclusion of PWDs in kitui and Kenya at large
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