Kenya: School hygiene and sanitation project, Kenya

AMREF has put into action the Personal Hygiene and Sanitation Education (PHASE) programme in rural Kenyan communities where hygiene and sanitation conditions are often poor, resulting in the spread of dysentery, diarrhoea and cholera.

PHASE is also being implemented in the urban ‘slum’ settlement of Kibera, in Nairobi. Living conditions are particularly poor because the government doesn’t recognise the slum as its responsibility, and provides no basic water or sanitation, education or health services. Overcrowded conditions spread disease quickly, and children suffer poor health because of inadequate nutrition and lack of access to clean water and sanitation.  (…)

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Original source: African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF)

Date: 23 Jun 2008

 

One response to “Kenya: School hygiene and sanitation project, Kenya

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