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Today CS. Samuel Keter, Esq, CPS (K), on the left in photo, nominates Kiptere Water Community for RaHa Solutions. He proposes Safaricom PLC to mark their tank. The project is designed to cover a 16 square kilometre radius when it’s completed and 20,000 people will benefit from it. So far, only phase one of the project has been done.

The following is what Samuel said.

To ‘Even It Up’, I nominate Kiptere Water Community Project for support in repairing of an existing concrete water tank.

The nominee is a water starved village and some of the beneficiaries include schools, dispensaries and market centres located along Kiptere-Sondu road, Sigowet Ward, Sigowet/Soin Constituency in Kericho County.

I would like an advertiser called Safaricom PLC to mark the gift with their name or logo free of charge.

The nominee and I agree that the gift be built in Kiptere Location, Sigowet Ward, Sigowet /Soin Constituency, Kericho County.

The nominee agrees to prepare the foundation and provide all unskilled labor required.

Some of the beneficiaries are as follows:
1. Erick Chepkwony;
2. Andrew Koech;
3. David Koech;
4. Esther Korir (Principal Kakibei Girls);
5. Mr. Kirui (Principal Kakibei Boys);
6. Joshua Langat(Skyline Academy);
7. Jeremiah Bett;
8. Evaline Chepngeno ( Principal Marumbasi Secondary);
9. Julius Rono Tele;
10. Sammy Bett( Chipchip);
11. Geoffrey Chepkwony;
12. Robert Chepkwony;
13. Kenneth Chepkwony;
14. Joseph Koech;
15. Andrew Chirchir;
16. Peter Bett;
17. Paul Tonui;
18. Isaiah Rono;
19. Mark Tonui;
20. Shadrack Kerich.

We have emailed this to Kenya State Department of Interior

State Department of Interior
Harambee House, Harambee Avenue
P.O Box 30510,00100 Nairobi.
Tel: +254-20-2227411
Email: ps.interior@kenya.go.ke, ps.pais@kenya.go.ke

RE: PROVISION & MAINTENANCE OF TOILETS IN POLICE CHECK POINTS

Recently, Kenya Ministry of health issued directive for managing human excreta and urine within service providing areas.

Police check points along roads have no toilets.

Please allow us to provide, install and maintain few SANI SOLAR toilets for free usage by the police.

We seek to do this because there may be NO budget for this for now yet poor excreta management anywhere results in contamination that affects many other citizens in the urban and rural space. Partial solutions will deliver only minimal public health, economic, social, and environmental benefits. To be cost effective, sanitation services must be planned to serve all those who need them – rich and poor alike.

REGARDS

(no signature as this is an email transmission)

FROM: RAHA SOLUTIONS

TO: ENG. JACOB RUWA, OGW

CHAIR & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

KENYA ROADS BOARD

info@krb.go.ke

Dear Sir,

RE: PROVISION & MAINTENANCE OF CLEAN TOILETS ALONG ROADS FOR FREE USAGE

This letter is open because promoting public access to toilets is not only about increasing provision, improving the quality and cleanliness of toilet facilities, signage and other information about what is available. It is also about sharing information – including intentions to provide, small details like signposting, and mapping of, local toilets – that help to shape an image for roads, towns and cities that makes a lasting and positive impression on local people and visitors. This is important for local people and visitors alike.

Please allow us to, at our cost, add and maintain SANI SOLAR toilets along your good roads for free usage by road users. The toilets, related signages and access will form part of existing road furniture (like drainage systems, bus stops etc). Note that the toilets don’t use water, they use solar heat instead. The toilets will manufacture fertiliser for locals.

We ask to do this because you may not be planning to do this instantly, yet Kenya Ministry of Health and road users expect road services to include toilet facilities that are accessible, clean and safe.

Last week, director of public health in Kenya Ministry of Health, Kepha Ombacho, said ‘..all banks, supermarkets, parks, bus stations and other public places must have clean water and sanitation systems…In Nakuru and Narok, a bus driver can’t stop on the way and let passengers go and defecate in the open. They will be arrested and fined. This is what should be happening in all the counties’.

While proposing that buses should have in-built toilets, many members of public have welcomed this directive.

The truth is that very few of us can afford fares for buses with inbuilt toilets and we cannot stop call of nature so the busses must stop where we (with your support) will provide toilet facilities.

Thanks for your time and consideration.

Regards,

RaHaSolutions

(no signature because this letter is an email transmission)

FROM: RAHA SOLUTIONS

TO: ENG. JACOB RUWA, OGW

CHAIR & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

KENYA ROADS BOARD

info@krb.go.ke

Dear Sir,

RE: CLEAN WATER FROM ROADS FOR THE WATER STARVED 

This letter is open because it will help to shape an image for roads that makes a lasting and positive impression on local people and visitors. This is important for local people and visitors alike. 

Please allow us to, at our cost, add and maintain water filters along your good roads, especially where the roads cross water starved villages. The filters and related signages will form part of existing road furniture. Note that the filters are easy to maintain.

We ask to do this because you may not be planning to do this instantly yet roads pollute water – in photo is just one of ways the roads pollute rainwater.

Thanks for your time and consideration.

Regards,

RaHaSolutions

(no signature because this letter is an email transmission)

In response to our open letter to Kenya Roads Board – PROVISION & MAINTENANCE OF TOILETS ALONG ROADS FOR FREE USAGE – some of you have suggested that SANI SOLAR on the road sides should be seat-less. Our response is as follows.

Attitudes towards public toilets have shifted significantly over the last years.

Society has changed fundamentally, for instance most of us now have toilets with seats and washing facilities within our own homes.

Therefore, and evidence from various studies suggests that, people increasingly prefer to use toilets in managed buildings such as shopping malls – these public toilets have seats. Because of the seats, cleaning is rigorous.

The proposed road side toilets therefore, if seat-less, risk falling into a cycle of decline where low usage creates an atmosphere of neglect, discouraging public use for the purposes intended and attracting anti-social behaviour, graffiti and criminal damage, which in turn increases maintenance costs.

A situation where maintenance costs are high or rising, and public use is falling, is not sustainable.

FROM: RAHA SOLUTIONS

TO: ENG. JACOB RUWA, OGW

CHAIR & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

KENYA ROADS BOARD

info@krb.go.ke

Dear Sir,

RE: PROVISION & MAINTENANCE OF CLEAN TOILETS ALONG ROADS FOR FREE USAGE 

This letter is open because promoting public access to toilets is not only about increasing provision, improving the quality and cleanliness of toilet facilities, signage and other information about what is available. It is also about sharing information – including intentions to provide, small details like signposting, and mapping of, local toilets – that help to shape an image for roads, towns and cities that makes a lasting and positive impression on local people and visitors. This is important for local people and visitors alike. 

Please allow us to, at our cost, add and maintain SANI SOLAR toilets along your good roads for free usage by road users. The toilets, related signages and access will form part of existing road furniture (like drainage systems, bus stops etc). Note that the toilets don’t use water, they use solar heat instead. The toilets will manufacture fertiliser for locals.

We ask to do this because you may not be planning to do this instantly, yet Kenya Ministry of Health and road users expect road services to include toilet facilities that are accessible, clean and safe.

Last week, director of public health in Kenya Ministry of Health, Kepha Ombacho, said ‘..all banks, supermarkets, parks, bus stations and other public places must have clean water and sanitation systems…In Nakuru and Narok, a bus driver can’t stop on the way and let passengers go and defecate in the open. They will be arrested and fined. This is what should be happening in all the counties’.

While proposing that buses should have in-built toilets, many members of public have welcomed this directive.

The truth is that very few of us can afford fares for buses with inbuilt toilets and we cannot stop call of nature so the busses must stop where we (with your support) will provide toilet facilities.

Thanks for your time and consideration.

Regards,

RaHaSolutions

(no signature because this letter is an email transmission)

In the Standard, there is a story that will make you Even It Up now, especially because doing so is cost free to you.

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