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The theme for this year’s event was UNITE for Universal Hand Hygiene. The event was graced 

by County Government oficials from the Health Department, Local administrators, Local CSOs 

and Nawiri team. Leaders from across the divide urged the residents to take control of their health by considering 

the 5 critical times of Hand washing, saying, 80% of common illnesses can be prevented through 

regular and proper hand washing Nawrir through its WASH project had recently spearheaded the Community Led Total Sanitation 

(CLTS) initiative where residents are trained to act by constructing latrines using locally available 

resources. 20 CLTSs had since been constructed and in use by the community members.

The leaders and community members including women and school children thanked Nawiri and 

the County government for their initiative to lead the fight against illnesses among the community 

of Lontolio. The head teacher of Lontolio was particularly grateful for the Nawiri led interventions and asked 

for more support for the school explaining how difficult it is to embrace the ideas of regular hand 

washing when the school has no water sources for cooking and drinking leave alone hand washing. 

“Right now, we have no water at all for the school. We totally rely on the water fetched by the 

children from their own homes, for our cooking and washing in the school”. With such a scarce 

commodity, the last thing one can think of is water for the hand washing boots.” He added.