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How the child benefits programme could secure our collective future

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Children play at their home at Bidii centre in Kitale. [Stafford Ondego, Standard]

The Universal Child Benefits (UBC) providing beneficiaries (female caregivers - because they can be trusted to nurture children) with bi-monthly Sh800 cash (per child) transfers, and equipping them with nutrition, child protection and disability and gender-sensitive complimentary services such as sensitisation and practical training is a heart-warming and an excellent initiative by the government.

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