Kenya Water for Health Organization (KWAHO)| New Details

The COVID-19 outburst has laid a limelight on the economic disparities and the delicate social safety that leaves marginalized communities to bear the brunt with or without a crisis. While the virus infects people from all walks of life, low-income families have been the most affected due to lack of access to basic needs.

With millions of people trying to heed to the health experts’ advice to wash their hands, thousands of Kenyans have been held back from this small action to prevent getting infected as they have no sustainable access to clean water and soap.

KWAHO funded by UNICEF through WASH Alliance Kenya was tasked to distribute handwashing facilities to persons living with disabilities, the chronically ill, and the elderly across Mukuru Kayaba, a slum East of Nairobi, cased with thousands leaking shanties housing over 700,000 people.

Program’s Highlights

Fortified with the most effective emergency response of expanding access to the most basic of public health interventions to contain the disease, in partnership with Nairobi Water And Sewerage Company, 14 water storage tanks were installed to serve during unreliable water supply periods, 76 public handwashing stations were placed at high traffic areas, 3800 household handwashing facilities and 3800 bars of soap.

After the distribution, we did follow-ups and sensitized the community members on the benefits of handwashing through educational and behavioral tools and tactics.