Health and Nutrition on the Performance of Pre Primary School Children in Rangwe Zone, Homa Bay District, Kenya
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Date
2008-11
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Kampala International University, school of education
Abstract
It is a fact that all people need food and cannot live long without eating enough of it. It is
this fact that the researcher has decided to establish the Impact on Health and Nutrition
on the Performance of Pre-Primary School in Rangwe Zone, Homa Bay District; the
research is based on finding out the relationship that exist between feeding and the
academic performance of the ECE children.
The researcher basing his research in children in Rangwe Zone randomly selected schools
and one sub-district hospital; Rangwe Health Center.
In the introduction of the study, the researcher dwelt much on the importance food as a
component of life. He compared the rich and the poor countries interns of food output.
In the statement of the problem, the researcher dwelt on the advantages and
disadvantages of good nutrition in the early ages, the researcher has also gone through
poverty in general as a factor contributing to drop-out rate from the ECE centres in
Rangwe Zone.
In literature review, the researcher’s viewed the extent to which health and nutrition
affects performance of the ECE children in the pre-primary education.
The researcher also reviewed the socio-economic status of the parents of the children in
the area of study and the way forward to overcome the socio-economic problems faced
by these parents.
Questionnaires to reach six schools out of the Zone’s 27 schools were used. The
researcher used random sampling whereby the population covered was about 30%.
The researcher found out that the ECE children have very little to feed on and foods eaten
are often unbalanced diet this gives rise to acute malnutrition. It is therefore felt that the
Government should avail feeding program mes as done in other districts. The parents
should also change their attitude and deviate from the main cash crop which is sugar cane
and plant food crops such as sorghum, groundnuts, cassava and other food crops which
are rich in proteins and vitamins.
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A Research Report Submitted to Institute of open and Distance Learning in partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Award of Degree of Bachelor of Education ECPE of Kampala International University
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Health and Nutrition on the Performance of Pre Primary School Children, Rangwe Zone, Homa Bay District, Kenya