Enhance access to clean water for all Kenyan pupils

A woman taps water from a cattle deep at Naipa village Loima Sub County in Turkana on July 23, 2022. [Peter Ochieng, Standard]

An estimated 40 per cent of Kenya's population does not have access to safe drinking water. The situation is also dire in schools, where one in three learners lack access to safe water.

This partly results from a strain on resources occasioned by the introduction of compulsory free primary education in 2003. Prior to that, enrollment rate hovered below 50 per cent. Within one year, 1.3 million children were registered in schools.