The project is geared towards addressing challenges that vulnerable households face in regard to accessing clean and safe drinking water. Low income households within the project area are exploited by local water vendors who charge them exhobidantly for them to acces the precious commodity with prices ranging from Kshs 20-80 for a twenty litre container of water.
The health risk factor associated with consuming this water is high as the beneficiaries know little about the source of this water hence making them at risk of contracting waterborne diseases such as diarrhoea, dycentry, typhoid and cholera.
The centre realising this as a problem, it establishes a water point that provides safe clean drinking water to the low income households at a subsidised price hence protecting them from exploitation from the local vendors who sell water whose source is unknown.
This initiative is geared towards complimenting MBG (Millenium Development Goal) number 7 target 10 that calls for reduction by half the number of vulnerable households that are not able to accses clean and safe drinking water by 2015. It is also geared towards reducing the under 5 child mobidity and motality rate associated with waterborne and sanitation related diseases such as diarrhoea, typhoid and cholera.
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