Procter & Gamble (P&G), the manufacturers of Pampers, Always and Ariel, today marked a decade of providing
clean water. The company announced an investment of Ksh100 million to provide another 100 million litres of clean water to more than 100,000 Kenyans in the coming year.
“Through the Children’s Safe Drinking Water (CSDW) program we will be expanding our school and health clinic work with CARE into Migori County in Western Kenya which has suffered a recent Cholera outbreak,” said P&G Managing Director Iacopo Pazzi.
Speaking upon receiving a donation of one million litres of clean drinking water from P$G, Nairobi City County Governor Dr Evans Kidero said that donation would help address the current cholera outbreak in Mathare and Huruma and future emergencies in Nairobi county.
“I have instructed the County Executive for Health to work with Population Services Kenya to find the most optimal way of distributing the sachets to ensure maximum coverage and protect the children of this County from diarrheal illnesses,” said Dr Kidero.
Currently, of the about 3.6 million residents of Nairobi, only half have direct access to piped water. The rest obtain water from kiosks, vendors and illegal connections. Of the existing customers, about 40% receive water on a 24-hour basis. Westlands, which has the highest number of its residents with access to tapped water in their dwellings, is at a low 34.5%.
Reliance on water vendors is at its highest in Nairobi East and West, which are at 22.2% and 19.8%, respectively. Since 2004, P&G Purifier of Water (formerly Pur) packets have been shared in more than 75 countries and the program has grown to include a network of more than 150 partners.
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