Giving Compass' Take:

· With a rising rate of non-communicable diseases, activists in Kenya are looking to tackle this issue by targeting young people and educating them on how to eat healthier. News Deeply explores these efforts and how the government is learning from them.

· Would incorporating health issues into school curriculum for young students help lower the number of NCDs?

· Read about a health company bringing water filtration systems to Kenya.

Ranjan Patel has a simple lesson for students in schools around Kenya’s capital, Nairobi: Think twice about what you eat, because it could have long-term consequences.

Patel is among a handful of volunteers with the Diabetes Association of Kenya who makes regular visits to schools around the city to talk to students about non-communicable diseases (NCDs), which are rising dramatically in the East African country. And many of these NCDs, like diabetes and heart disease, are fueled by unhealthy eating habits that start at a young age.

So Patel and the other volunteers use whatever approach they can to try to teach young people to eat healthier and curb Kenya’s NCD emergency, building on a model of school-based, behavior-change education that was successfully introduced at the height of the country’s HIV epidemic.

Read the full article about Kenya's students by Prisca Aroko at News Deeply.