Widows in Siaya County have got something to cheer them up after a Non-governmental Organisation started supplying them with water filters.
This is to help them access clean water in the county where water scarcity is the norm.
The NGO known as The Great Lakes Foundation is operating through partnership with an International organization known as ‘Just One’.
Director of Great Lakes Foundation Bishop Phoebe Onyango said the move to donate water filters to the widows and vulnerable families was triggered by the fact that majority of lives were being lost due to consumption of untreated water.
“So far we have distributed the water filters to over 1,000 households for free in the last four years,” said Onyango.
Speaking at her Salem Ministries orphanage home where they donated 75 more water filters, Onyango challenged Siaya county government to support them so that they can bring more filters to enhance access to clean water along the lake shores.
Monica Atieno Sewe, a resident of Oele beach in Bondo sub-county within Siaya County, said that they have had to battle waterborne diseases including Typhoid, Cholera, amoeba and diarrhoea among others due to lack of access to clean water.
“Due to the unhygienic condition of the water drawn straight from the lake, we have had to part with a lot of money in purifying the water and treating water related illness despite the hard economic times,” she said.