Hii East Ani Kenya pekee
Choo kimoja watu zaidi ya 500!!?
Wanawezaje kupata muda wa kutawaza
au Nani anaweka maji chooni!!
Effort to rid Kibera of ‘flying toilets’ » Capital News
NAIROBI, Kenya, Jul 24 – With an estimated population of over two million people, Kibera slum is said to have one pit latrine for every 50 to 500 people.
This according to the United Nations Development Programme, has led to the use of ‘flying toilets’, where the residents use polythene bags to relieve themselves and then dispose them anywhere.
Located about five kilometers south of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, the slum is divided into the nine villages of Kianda, Soweto, Kisumu Ndogo, Lindi, Laini Saba, Silanga, Makini and Mashimoni.
“The major problem we have here is sanitation. We have no sewer lines. Toilets are constructed next to the river and when we use them the waste goes right into the river,” Lydia, a resident of Soweto village tells us.
In this area where Lydia lives, there are four badly constructed communal pit latrines that she estimates serve 500 people.
“People come from far to use these toilets. We are many. We could even be more than the 500,” she says.
The shortage of pit latrines, the residents say, is because there is no space to construct them and some landlords don’t want to erect them due to the cost implication.
Water and sanitation services in this slum are almost non-existent. Open sewers and unrestrained waste disposal is evident everywhere.