In the Soweto slum of Nairobi, volunteers are making soap from vegetables.
The goal is to provide soap for residents to wash their hands and prevent the spread of COVID-19.
About 86% of Kenyans find it hard to access soap and running water each day, according to a UNICEF report last year.
That includes most of Soweto’s more than 70,000 residents, among them Peter Maina.
“Right now, the economy is high,” Peter said. “The little I get is for feeding the family. Will I buy soap or provide for my children?”
For people like Maina, Kenyan charities such as the Tulinde child trust are filling the gap. The organization’s director, Noel Khatushi, says the poverty levels in the slums are derailing the fight against the coronavirus.
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Benard Sanga |
April 7th 2021 at 09:41:00 GMT +0300
Wreckages of the two vehicles involved in a crash at Kizingo on Mombasa-Malindi Highway. April 7, 2021. [Courtesy]
Fifteen people have been confirmed dead following a road accident involving a bus and minibus at Kizingo on Mombasa-Malindi Highway.
Twenty-four passengers are nursing injuries at Malindi Sub-County Hospital, County Commissioner Kutswa Olaka says.
The fatal accident occurred at 7am on Wednesday, April 7, 2021. [Nehemiah Okwemba, Standard]
The accident occurred at around 7am on Wednesday morning, Coast Traffic police boss Peter Maina confirmed.
A bus, belonging to Muhsin Sacco, was heading to Garissa, when it collided head-on with a minibus of Sabaki Sacco, which was headed to Mombasa from Malindi.
THE STANDARD By
Benard Sanga |
April 7th 2021 at 09:41:00 GMT +0300
Wreckages of the two vehicles involved in a crash at Kizingo on Mombasa-Malindi Highway. April 7, 2021. [Courtesy]
Fifteen people have been confirmed dead following a road accident involving a bus and minibus at Kizingo on Mombasa-Malindi Highway.
Twenty-four passengers are nursing injuries at Malindi Sub-County Hospital, County Commissioner Kutswa Olaka says.
The fatal accident occurred at 7am on Wednesday, April 7, 2021. [Nehemiah Okwemba, Standard]
The accident occurred at around 7am on Wednesday morning, Coast Traffic police boss Peter Maina confirmed.
A bus, belonging to Muhsin Sacco, was heading to Garissa, when it collided head-on with a minibus of Sabaki Sacco, which was headed to Mombasa from Malindi.
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KENYA
Eighteen people are reported to have died in two separate road accidents on Wednesday.
In the first incident, 15 people were killed in a road accident at Kizingi, on the Mombasa-Malindi Highway. Six employees of the Kilifi County government are among the victims.
County officials said their colleagues died when a minibus heading to Kilifi from Malindi was involved in a head-on collision with a bus near Malindi town
In another accident, three people died when a cane tractor overturned at Kasagam on the Kisumu-Nairobi road.
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Witnesses said the driver of the tractor was speeding while approaching the flyover before he lost control of the vehicle.
By Standard Reporter | 1 month ago
You can drive out with a car for as little as Sh300,000 or as much as Sh5 million.
The Jamhuri Auto Bazaar is over 30 years old. The market which deals in about 1,500 second-hand cars receives about 3,000 customers every week who mostly visit the car yard for ‘window-shopping’, to examine number plates and sometimes to check out engine sizes. You can drive out with a car for as little as Sh300,000 or as much as Sh5 million. Peter Maina whose side hustle is trading in cars says, “In a month I can sell one car but it is because I do homework to understand the ideal car at any given time. There are car models that are easy to sell.”