In a bid to keep cholera out of Nakuru public primary schools, a 45-year-old woman has started a campaign to clean toilets.
Lilian King started the Adopt A Loo initiative that seeks to incorporate partners to clean all the toilets in the county.
“I started this initiative when I went to Crater primary school to vote, she said during an interview.
“While in the queue, I felt the urge to relieve myself. When I went to the toilets, the toilets were covered with maggots. However, due to the darkness I could not realise it and when I was in the middle of relieving myself, I felt something crawl on my legs up to the ankle. When I looked I saw that I had maggots all over my body and I ran out of the toilet screaming.
“People rushed to help me but the incident traumatised me for a long while after that,” she added.
Ms King said that they supply schools with toilet papers, soap and clean water for children to wash their hands after using the toilets.
“We supply water that has disinfectant to the children because we had cases of children who used their hands when they never got tissue papers. The water that they clean their hands with is then collected in a bucket and used to clean the toilets as well,” she said.
She said that she has also taught the children on proper hygiene.