How often do you wash your towel? Some people wash once a week, while some, once a year. The towel is a fertile breeding ground for millions of microbes, especially those found on human skin and on the gut. No wonder the towel is one of the objects that facilitate fecal-oral contamination (literally connecting the two ends of the gut). Worse still, most people keep towels in the bathroom (near the toilet). Every flush of the toilet sends mist with millions of microbes, ranging from H.pylori, salmonella and other deadly bacteria and viruses. When you wash your hands ready for a meal, and dry them with your body towel, there's high chance you are directly ingesting your fecal matter, or, if in a shared lavatory, someone else's faeces. Unless cleaned well, viruses such as human papillomavirus (causes warts, anal cancer and cervical cancer) can be transmitted when towels are shared with infected individuals. So, what to do? 1. Launder towels once a week. 2. Use hot water and det...
The Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD) has for the past few weeks been calling for a National Dialogue with the Jubilee administration to discuss various issues that affect the common mwananchi and the building of our Nation. The Jubilee government is unwilling to sit down with the opposition to talk about Kenya and therefore,CORD has organized a series of consultative rallies across the country, to meet and listen to the people in the build up to the Saba Saba day. The CORD leadership is breaking away from the tradition where politicians would get on to the microphone and address wananchi, and now, it will be the turn of wananchi to speak and address the leaders on the various issues affecting them. The consultative forums are in accordance with article 1 of the constitution which provides that the Sovereignty lies with the people of Kenya who may exercise it either directly or through their democratically elected representatives. Below is the programme for this month through to the main Saba Saba rally which will be held in Nairobi. SCHEDULE OF CONSULTATIVE RALLIES DATE TOWN Friday 13TH June 2014 Migori Town Sunday 15TH June 2014 Mombasa Friday 20TH June 2014 Kisii Saturday 21th June 2014 Kakamega Sunday 22ND June 2014 Nakuru Wednesday 25TH June 2014 Garissa Friday 27TH June 2014 TBA Saturday 28TH June 2014 Eldoret Sunday 29TH June 2014 Narok Friday 4TH July 2014 TBA Saturday 5TH July 2014 Kisumu Sunday 6TH July 2014 Machakos Monday 7th July 2014 Nairobi
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