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Wiping open defecation cut cholera, created jobs

A SATO toilet bowl in Bar Agulu village, Siaya County. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

Mary Achieng walks shoulder-high at her home in Baragulu village, Siaya County. Her family of seven has not suffered any sanitation-related illnesses in five months thanks to a pan placed on her pit latrine.

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