Gatanga, in Murang’a County, is one of Kenya’s more picturesque locations. It is home to the Ndakaine Dam, which supplies water to most of Nairobi, and also home to the organization that conserves the dam, Ndakaine Dam Conservation Association (NDEKA).
While the African continent seems to have been spared from the worst of the pandemic, it joins the world in a cautiously optimistic walk into the New Year. In this spirit, Kenya too has relaxed some of its COVID restrictions and opened its schools to all learners, in an effort to return to ‘pre-corona’ normalcy.
Eshikomere girls is a Boarding school situated in Butere Sub County, Kakamega County. It has a population of 680 girls .The School had no access to water save for a stream 2 kms away. Pupils were required to make the trek to the stream to fetch water for their daily use. As expected, pupil enrollment as well as academic performance greatly suffered.
Very few children with disabilities have access to basic education. Because of this, young people with disabilities are less likely to be employed, and more likely to be living in poverty, than people without disabilities.
Lack of access to clean water is a key factor in students’ academic performance and attendance rates. Kibuye Girls is a girls’ primary day school in Kisumu County, Kenya. It sources learners from disadvantaged backgrounds such as the informal settlements of Obunga,
Water has often been rightly described as the integral ingredient of life and at Davis and Shirtliff, all efforts have been made to improving the quality and management of this precious resource.
Drowning is often under looked as a public death threat. According to the Kenya police records, about 4,607 deaths in 2018 alone were caused by drowning. Every year, many people in Lamu die from drowning, and one of the causes of this is that many don’t know how to swim. A local charity has set up in Lamu to teach people how to swim in an effort to mitigate this risk. Being a predominantly conservative community, there are challenges around girls/ women swimming, which the charity specifically tackles head on.