Gardy Chacha
Contributor at Freelance
Journalist at The Standard (Kenya)
Award winning journalist. @EJN 2025 FELLOW Opinions entirely my own: except on journalistic work.
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2 weeks ago |
standardmedia.co.ke | Gardy Chacha
Fibroids are non-cancerous growths in the uterus that can cause pain heavy bleeding and discomfort in women. It is no surprise, therefore, that a woman might choose to have them removed.
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1 month ago |
standardmedia.co.ke | Gardy Chacha
The What Women Want Summit took place last month at the Trade Mark Hotel in Nairobi. One of the breakout sessions addressed the gender pay gap, the premise being that men earn more than women for the same job. “Earning good money is part of a woman’s emancipation. The truth is that men got a head start at making money. Women are playing catch-up. A woman cannot be fully emancipated if she cannot afford to pay bills. “For us we no longer want to just earn: we want to be paid our worth.
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1 month ago |
standardmedia.co.ke | Gardy Chacha
On a fateful day in 2018, June Kathoki, then just 27, swallowed an entire container of pills and lay down to sleep, hoping she would wake in the celestial realm of the departed. Fate had other plans. June is a Health Records Officer at a local hospitalInstead of slipping away, she awoke violently, her body convulsing as she expelled the very substances meant to end her life. “I woke up, vomiting my guts out,” she recalls. It was her first suicide attempt.
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1 month ago |
standardmedia.co.ke | Gardy Chacha
The planting season is approaching in Kenya’s breadbasket areas, in line with the March-April-May rains. Farmers are already queuing at National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) outlets to purchase subsidized fertilizer. However, there is a shortage in supply. A spot-check by The Standard in Bomet and Kitale shows that farmers have been left in suspense as NCPB outlets are out of stock.
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2 months ago |
standardmedia.co.ke | Gardy Chacha
At the age of 38, Regina Kimanthi was diagnosed with arthritis in 2015, following recurrent and unexplained joint pain and fatigue. “I have been on arthritis medication ever since,” she says. But sometimes, she runs out of medicine and is forced to endure the pain. As a resident of Malawi village in Makueni County, money is scarce. After all, poverty is a constant challenge that she and her fellow villagers face.
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