Browsing by Author "Kositany, Jane C."

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    An Assessment of Church Sunday school Programs in Addressing Spiritual Needs of Children: A Case of Selected Churches in Nairobi County, Kenya
    (Daystar University, School of Human and Social Sciences, 2016) Kositany, Jane C.
    This study examined the church’s role in addressing spiritual needs of children: a case of selected churches in Nairobi Count, Kenya. Objectives of the study were to; determine the types of Sunday school programmes in selected churches in Nairobi County, examine age appropriateness of the lessons taught in Sunday school in the selected churches, determine the teachers training and knowledge on Sunday school programmes and establish the role of parents in Sunday school programmes at the church. The literature reviewed informed the topic of study. The study was anchored on the theories of child development by Piaget and faith development by Fowler. The research design used was descriptive with a sample size of 100 respondents. The main instruments of data collection were questionnaires, interview guides and observation guides. The data was analyzed using SPSS version 20 and presented using tables, graphs and pie charts. The study established that Sunday school as programme was present in all the four churches, the majority of Sunday school teachers had one day seminar, Sunday school programmes were not fully age graded and parents’ major role 100% (20) was to take their children to Sunday school. The study recommended that the churches should develop a curriculum that is child friendly and age appropriate. The church leadership should also ensure that all Sunday school teachers and volunteers are trained. Also develop a recruitment policy for Sunday school teachers. In conclusion the programmes taught in Sunday school range from bible reading, singing, memory verses, drama and prayer. Most of these programmes were not age appropriate in their presentation and design. Most parents failed role modeling for their children and instead left it to the Sunday school teachers.
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    An Assessment of the Challenges of Children in Prison with their Mothers: A Case of Langata Women Maximum Prison
    (Interdisciplinary Journal on the African Child, 2019) Kositany, Jane C.
    Children growing up in prison with imprisoned mothers are faced with many challenges. The Kenyan laws allow toddlers to stay with their incarcerated mothers in prison up to the age of four. Definitely, the children who live in prison are not criminals and as such should not be subjected to any treatment and environment that reduces their human basic natural rights. It is against this backdrop that this paper assessed the challenges of children in prison with their mothers in Lang’ata Women’s Maximum Prison. Specifically, the paper assessed the social, psychological and educational challenges. The paper was intended to influence the justice system in the best interest of the child. The study used a naturalistic design which was purely qualitative in nature to collected data. The researcher purposively sampled only women with their children in the prison. The data collected was analysed using content analysis to generate qualitative report which was presented in a continuous prose and verbatim citations. The social development challenges were mostly observed. The study found out that prisoners were subjected to severe overcrowding, insufficient food supply, mothers had to share their portion with the children, poor sanitary conditions, inadequate water supply and bedding. Police and prison guards subjected prisoners to torture and inhuman treatment such as handcuffing, punishing and shouting at the mothers in front of the children causes psychological trauma to the children. It further found that there are no enough learning materials at the centre. In conclusion, whatever is done in all actions considering children, whether undertaken by private or public social welfare institutions, courts of law, administrative authorities or legislative bodies, the best interest of the child shall be a main consideration. Both the society and the government should operationalize this fact.
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    An Assessment of the Challenges of Children in Prison with their Mothers: A Case of Langata Women Maximum Prison
    (Interdisciplinary Journal on the African Child, 2018) Kositany, Jane C.
    Children growing up in prison with imprisoned mothers are faced with many challenges. The Kenyan laws allow toddlers to stay with their incarcerated mothers in prison up to the age of four. Definitely, the children who live in prison are not criminals and as such should not be subjected to any treatment and environment that reduces their human basic natural rights. It is against this backdrop that this paper assessed the challenges of children in prison with their mothers in Lang’ata Women’s Maximum Prison. Specifically, the paper assessed the social, psychological and educational challenges. The paper was intended to influence the justice system in the best interest of the child. The study used a naturalistic design which was purely qualitative in nature to collected data. The researcher purposively sampled only women with their children in the prison. The data collected was analysed using content analysis to generate qualitative report which was presented in a continuous prose and verbatim citations. The social development challenges were mostly observed. The study found out that prisoners were subjected to severe overcrowding, insufficient food supply, mothers had to share their portion with the children, poor sanitary conditions, inadequate water supply and bedding. Police and prison guards subjected prisoners to torture and inhuman treatment such as handcuffing, punishing and shouting at the mothers in front of the children causes psychological trauma to the children. It further found that there are no enough learning materials at the centre. In conclusion, whatever is done in all actions considering children, whether undertaken by private or public social welfare institutions, courts of law, administrative authorities or legislative bodies, the best interest of the child shall be a main consideration. Both the society and the government should operationalize this fact.
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    Assessment of utilization of National Health Insurance Fund students’ health scheme: A case of selected Institutions of Higher Leaning in Arusha region, Tanzania.
    (IOSR Journal of Nursing and Health Science (IOSR-JNHS), 2020-12) Kositany, Jane C.; Katerengabo, Bernard; Yugi, Philemon
    Background: Tanzania has been undertaking various efforts to establish the universal health coverage by ensuring all Tanzanians are insured by the National Health Insurance Fund. In 2009, NHIF designed students’ health scheme for providing health-care services specifically to students through payment of annual membership fees. However, for more than 10 years, the annual enrolment of students has been low at 35%. This study therefore, sought to assess the utilization of NHIF university students’ health scheme in Arusha, Tanzania using two selected universities as the case study. Materials and Methods: The study adopted a descriptive research design. The sample for the study comprised of 220 respondents who were identified through both probability and non-probability sampling techniques. A semi-structured questionnaire was used to collect quantitative data and a tape recorder to record qualitative data. The quantitative data was analyzed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS), while the qualitative data was analyzed through coding. Results: Out of the total respondents, 90% had visited the health facility once in the previous 12 months. Some of the respondents (10%) did not utilize the health facilities, giving the reason that they were not sick and hence did not need medical attention. The majority of the students were knowledgeable about the health services offered under the NHIF students’ health scheme. The administrators dealing with NHIF issued in the selected IHL said that, NHIF had not established a system of dealing with raised challenges when students accessed the health-care services. Conclusion: Majority of study respondents had visited the health facilities once in the past 12 months. Despite students being aware of the health services offered, NHIF had not established the system of communicating with students on their health matters.
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    Development of Forex Bureaus in Kenya and Their Impact on Exchange Rate Against The Us Dollar
    (International Journal of Economics, Commerce and Management, 2016) Kositany, Jane C.; Cheruiyot, Peter Kimutai; Yegon, Charles Kiprotich
    This study examined the relationship between the development of Forex Bureaus and the exchange rate of the US dollar in Kenyan financial market. It was conducted in Nairobi from November 2005 to January 2006, and data was collected using questionnaires. The questionnaires were distributed to a number of foreign exchange bureaus in Nairobi with the purpose of analysing their development over the years since they were first incorporated in 1995 to date. The main purpose of the study was therefore to analyse the development of foreign exchange bureaus and determine their impact on exchange rates. From the study, the researchers were able to conclude that there is a weak positive relationship between the development of foreign exchange bureaus and the exchange rates in the economy. This was evidenced \ by the fact that 57.14% of the respondents agreed that there was a positive correlation while 42.86% of the respondents disagreed that there was any relationship
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    A Survey on Operations and Impact of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations. A Case Study of Middle Income Earners in Embakasi, Nairobi, Kenya.
    (Licensed under Creative Common, 2016-05-05) Cheruiyot, Peter Kimutai; Kositany, Jane C.; Yegon, Charles Kiprotich
    The study examined the operations and impact of rotating savings and credit organizations on the lives of middle income earners. Therefore, its contents covered introduction that dealt with trends research provides literature currently available on organisations and it assesses the impact of the organizations by analyzing how the members use their funds to enable them acquire financial assets, physical assets, human assets and social assets. Data from 57 groups located in Savannah Ward of Embakasi indicates that ROSCAs operations vary from group to group depending on the agreements by the members. The study indicates that ROSCAs had an impact in lives of middle income earners and it had enabled them acquire financial assets, physical assets, human assets and social assets. In addition the research also showed that the organizations also had an impact on money management since members also used the funds to meet current expenditure.