Nairobi — As the country marks the World Toilet Day this year, hundreds of lives in majority of slums are still at risk of diseases linked to poor sanitation as they lack access to free public toilets.
In Nairobi alone, access to sanitation has been one of the largest issues with statistics by the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, indicating that only 29 per cent of the population has access to sanitation facilities.
A huge chunk of the 71 per cent of residents who lack access to basic sanitation facilities live in slums. The residents here have normalized living unhygienic conditions as filthy sewage water flows freely within their compounds where children play.
Residents of Nairobi’s Mukuru kwa Reuben slum are among the 2.3 billion people around the world who lack access to basic toilets and a proper sewerage system. A testament to this being that within a three-metre…