She may not be rich but she is using the little she has and her ingenuity to help needy Nyeri residents fight Covid-19. Waithira Maruru has been targeting the vulnerable like street families, slum dwellers, the old, the sick and the disabled by setting up tippy taps for washing hands. The 29-year-old Karatina woman has set up several of them in slums where tap water is a dream. A tippy tap is a simple facility made from readily available materials that dispenses water in small amounts for people to wash hands. “We realised that so many of our people in slums had no tap water and therefore could not wash their hands with running water,” she said.

Source: The Star April 15, 2020 18:56 UTC