AFP 2012-06-08 18:37:57
A health worker at an informal school prepares Pee poople toilets for young pupilson June 8, 2012 at Kibera slum, in Nairobi, where poor sanitation is endemic and threatens the lives of the local community. A cheap and innovative sanitation solution called 'Pee poople', which consists of a bio-degrable plastic bag pre-loaded with urea is set to change the lives of residents in slums and other informal settlements by digesting human waste quickly and hygienically thus diminishing people's contact with human excrement. Lack of proper toilets has seen numerous slum residents result to defecating outdoors in open fields or river systems greatly increasing the chances of contamination of ground water which leads to poor sanitation and the resulting diseases that claim the life of a child every 12 seconds according to research. AFP PHOTO/Tony KARUMBA
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