PHOTOS: Innovative, affordable options for slum dwellers amid covid-19

Innovative, affordable options for slum dwellers amid covid-19

Innovative, affordable options for slum dwellers amid covid-19

By Lilian Kaivilu

While many Kenyans have options to enable them stay safe in the wake of corona virus, those living in informal settlements have limited options. One of them is to wash hands regularly with soap and running water.

But since running water is a luxury in majority of the homes here, generous traders and community based organizations have provided an alternative to the locals. Along most roads in the informal settlements are these hand washing facilities.

We bring you some of the innovative ways that residents here have chosen to stay safe, without necessary breaking the bank.

Take a look

Business: Innovative Kenyan traders have already started deliveries for hand washing packages
Business: Innovative Kenyan traders have already started deliveries for hand washing packages
Simplicity: A hand washing station does not have to be complicated. This one still serves the purpose
Simplicity: A hand washing station does not have to be complicated. This one still serves the purpose
Hygiene at food kiosks: Customers here are assured of a hand washing facility with soap as they get their take-away-meals as per the government directive
Hygiene at food kiosks: Customers here are assured of a hand washing facility with soap as they get their take-away-meals as per the government directive

 

A hand washing station donated by Garden of Hope Foundation a non-profit organization in Kibera
A hand washing station donated by Garden of Hope Foundation a non-profit organization in Kibera
A hand washing station in Ayany-Kibera
A hand washing station in Ayany-Kibera

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