US NGO partners with Baringo County to manage malnutrition

A group of mothers receiving training from health care workers on earlier detection of malnutrition at Embositit village in Tiaty West Baringo. [Marion Kithi, Standard)

In most African traditions, children wear bracelets to guard against evil spirits. Generally, bracelets are ornaments, a show of beauty.

But in a small village in Embositit in Tiaty West Sub County in Baringo, tri-coloured mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) bracelets are won by kids as a detector of malnutrition.