About WASH First WASH First is a fifteen months’ project funded by SIMAVI in which WASH Alliance Kenya supports COVID-19 response in two selected informal settlements in Nairobi — Korogocho and Mathare Valley Informal Settlements. Testimonials Josephine Adhiambo, a 42-year-old single mother of three, resides in Ngomongo village in Korogocho Informal Settlement. She is chronically…
World Toilet Day annually celebrates access to toilets and raises awareness of the 4.2 billion people living without access to safely managed sanitation. It is about taking action to tackle the global sanitation crisis and achieve Sustainable Development Goal 6: water and sanitation for all by 2030. This year the theme remarks the importance of “Sustainable sanitation…
By Tobias Omufwoko | CEO WASH Alliance Kenya Nairobi City County continues to have room for improvement in water, sanitation, and hygiene (WaSH) practices and accessibility, with less than half of households in Nairobi City County observing handwashing. According to the Kenya Demographic and Health Survey 2014, only 39 percent of households in the capital…
Maureen Adisa, a community volunteer in Kibera’s Soweto East area, says handwashing stands she managed next to a boda boda (motorcycle taxis) parking bay was helping hundreds of people passing by on their daily routine. “This handwashing stand has come at the right time when people really need to wash their hands and stay safe…
Kenya’s community health strategy includes a CHW cadre, called community health volunteers (CHVs). The CHV programme began in the early 1970s when community-based health care projects in different parts of the country emerged. Community health workers are an important potential resource for encouraging hygiene behaviour change in high-burden, low-income communities. They provide essential community health…