Month: December 2022

Your spouse retires. You also have just a year to retire. Your spouse falls sick and doctors tell you that he has a clot of the arteries. He is referred to one of the biggest hospitals in Kenya for further treatment. At the Hospital, the doctor opens the leg only to realise that it has […]

During the just concluded heads conference, KEWOTA CEO BENTA OPANDE told teachers that MINET was the only insurance consortium that had the structures and networks to cover teachers medically with the current capitation that govt gives to them. “The NHIF cover rejected to cover teachers with a capitation of 9 billion for the over 300 […]

Kenya Women Teachers Association (KEWOTA) has congratulated two coordinators/ members who have been appointed by Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) to monitor ALL the NATIONAL EXAMS that Commenced from and shall come to an end on 23rd of December,2022. Speaking from their office in Nairobi, The Executives urged the two members to conduct themselves with […]

Kewota Chief Executive Officer Benta Opande has called on the government to shelf the move to ban boarding primary schools in the country. Speaking yesterday at the KEPSHA Annual conference that was held in Mombasa at Sheik Zayed Centre, KEWOTA CEO invoked the Biblical verse in Isaiah 1:18 that says come and let’s reason together […]

One of the greatest philosophers, Aristotle once said that if you want to persuade someone, you can go for the emotion, provide logic or appeal to their character. This was the case at the KEPSHA Annual conference that was held in Mombasa at Sheik Zayed Centre last week. Addressing thousands of delegates on Thursday, KEWOTA […]

KEWOTA CEO, Madam Benta Opande has said the teachers health insurance policy is crucial in the teaching fraternity in the country. Kewota boss was speaking in Mombasa while giving her presentation during this year’s KEPSHA annual conference. Opande touched on the sensitive matter regarding teachers’ health insurance policy that has become a noose around teachers’ […]

Madam Benta Opande, KEWOTA CEO has been awarded this afternoon for her exemplary efforts in gender awareness in the teaching profession. Benta while receiving her award said that gender is both male and female. She decried the situation where less and less men are enrolling in Teacher training colleges and claiming the profession is for […]

The just released interim report by Workforce on Education and the subsequent directive by His Excellency the President, Dr William Ruto has renewed hope in our education system. As a welfare organisation, we were so concerned about the welfare of the young children in case they were moved to secondary schools as earlier recommendations had […]

When you are still in employment, life may seem normal. However, when you retire, suddenly, everyone, including your employer, becomes tired of you, for not only does your salary stop, your medical insurance also stops as if to say that you are only required to be alive in the course of your employment. Things are, […]

Thogoto Teachers Training College (TTC) Table Banking Group is one of the most successful Inua Dada programs under the KEWOTA empowerment agenda. Operating on a net worth of over Ksh 1,09million and loaning members at the rate of Ksh 300,000 for normal loans and up to 350 000 of emergency loans, the group is spoilt […]