August is generally the busiest month of the year for me in terms of work so this blog and Kijani have taken a bit of a backseat the past month, but now that things are calming down I am planning to go back to updating the blog regularly...
The last blog post was about Kijani nappies, and I mentioned that I would write a post about how much money could be saved by using cloth instead of disposables.
Based on information from friends in Kenya, the cost of disposables ranges from around Kshs 1050 for a pack of 64 up to Kshs 1485 for a pack of 42. That means disposables costs between Kshs 16 and 35 per diaper.
On average, at least 4 diapers a day are used for older babies, and 7 a day for newborns. Assuming someone uses 7 diapers a day for the first two months and then four diapers per day after that, they would use 1643 in baby's first year and 1460 in the second year. This estimate is the minimum they would need, since any mama knows that babies often wait to go until they have a nice clean diaper on :)
This means a family would spend between 50,000 and 108,000 shillings in two years just on disposable diapers! If a baby is in diapers until he/she is 3 years old, the family would spend between 73,000 and 160,000 total! And that's just for one child, many families have more than one child. That's a lot of money that is literally thrown away on disposable diapers!
Each Kijani diaper costs 600 shillings. Because the sizing is adjustable, the baby can wear the same diaper from the time they are born until they are out of diapers. Depending on how often a family wants to wash nappies, it is recommended to buy 12-24 Kijani diapers. These would cost ONLY between 7200-14400, plus 1000-3000 to buy plain white nappies or towels to stuff the Kijani nappies. That is a HUGE difference!
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