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Hundreds of rural dwellers are living with jiggers in their bodies. they are unable to walk or even work and this results in trauma, isolation which leads to low self-esteem.

This is a problem that has been overshadowed by other plights. It is time we said goodbye to this pest.

Ahadi Kenya Trust has opened jigger help and counselling centers in Murang'a, Gatundu, Kiambu, Malindi and Tana River Districts and plans to open several others in all affected areas countrywide to help in eliminating jiggers. We need your help to turn lives around.

"Where did we go wrong that jiggers can still torment people in the 21st Century?"
- Daniel Arap Moi,
Former President of Kenya

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Tunga penetrans is known as the chigger, jigger, chigoe, bicho do pé or sand flea. The head is angular, it has no comb of spines , and the thoracic segments are narrow at the top...

Since its inception, The Anti-Jigger Campaign (an Ahadi Kenya initiative) has visited many parts of the country, fighting the jigger menace...

Cecilia Mwangi, Miss World Kenya 2005, is the anti-jigger CAMPAIGN AMBASSADOR for Ahadi Kenya Trust...

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The Jigger Menace in Kenya Report - Vol.1

 

 

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News Updates:
 10th June 2009: Anti-jigger awareness campaign/lottery launched in Nairobi. ...... 15th May 2009: Prime Minister’s wife Ida Odinga joins anti-jigger campaign in Kandara.......... 1st May 2009: Anti-jigger campaign launched in Narok........22nd April 2009: Ahadi Kenya announced Winners of third annual Leadership & Management Award in Global Health..........4th April 2009: More than 700 people recover fully from jigger infestation......21st March 2009: Anti-jigger campaign launched in Eastern Province.......20th March 2009: A family of Five (5) are admitted at Kiambu District Hospital after jigger attack........7th March 2009: More than Four (400) children were treated of jiggers in Kandara........14th February 2009: Several people were treated of jiggers and supplied with foodstuffs on Valentines Day.......22nd January 2009: More than twenty (20) jigger victims from Kandara Constituency are admitted at Maragwa District hospital. ...... 10th January 2009: Over 10 million Kenyans at the risk of jigger infestation says Hon. Beth Mugo, Minister Public Health.......6th December 2008: 300 children at Lewa downs primary school in Samburu  are infested with jiggers...........15th November 2008: Bee-keeping project launched for recovered jigger victims in Murang’a....11th October 2008: Over 40,000 school going children are jigger infested in Malindi.....10th October 2008: Anti-jigger campaign is launched at the coast province....... ...4th October 2008: A jigger help Centre is opened in Gatundu.........17th September 2008: NIC Bank donates Ksh.100, 000 towards the anti-jigger campaign.............13th September 2008: Kenya Airways launches clean up campaigns for jigger infested primary schools... . ....2nd September 2008: Nigerian twin artists P-Square visited and committed their support for the Anti-jigger campaign... More information in the ACTIVITIES section..
 

 

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