ABSTRACT
The study focused on the impact of poverty on parents' participation in early childhood programmes m Gatanga division of Thika district. It was a cross sectional survey which involved pre-school teachers and pre-school parents and guardians as respondents. The findings revealed that parent's poverty will adversely affect their participation to early childhood programmes in Gatanga division. There is need for parents to actively support the ECO programmes for survival and continuity. The researcher recommends that there be private sponsorship and more funding of ECO programmes so as to control poverty in preschool parents.
