Director,
T.E.(Terry)
Manning,
Schoener 50,
1771 ED
Wieringerwerf,
The Netherlands.
Tel:
0031-227-604128
Homepage:
http://www.flowman.nl
E-mail:
(nameatendofline)@xs4all.nl : bakensverzet
and
"Money is not
the key that opens the gates of the market but the bolt that bars them"
Gesell, Silvio The
Natural Economic Order
Revised English
edition, Peter Owen,
“Poverty is created scarcity”
Wahu Kaara, point 8 of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty, 58th
annual NGO Conference, United Nations,
Basic hygienic principles
such as washing hands before meals and after visiting the toilets, boiling of
drinking water, building of pit latrines and personal cleanliness are commonly
applied. There are no courses available for training women. School courses
include a basic introduction to personal and environmental hygiene. Universal
basic hygiene aspects are followed by most of the households.
The health facilities in all
the sub-locations in the Kiogoro area are inadequate to serve the populations.
The health facilities comprise just three clinics, which are ill equipped and
often experience shortage of drugs, necessitating patients to travel to the
district hospital in Kisii for treatment, thus causing congestion there. This
imbalance can be only partly addressed under this project, which cannot
substitute the basic obligations of the state.
The major causes of infant
mortality throughout the project area are malaria, diarrhoea, typhoid, HIV/AIDS
and intestinal worms. The project can make an important contribution in the
fight against these diseases by providing clean water sanitation and improved
drainage, and by eliminating smoke hazards, stagnant waters, and ensuring a
more varied diet.
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