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...
European Union (EU) Ambassador to Kenya Stefano Dejak (right), United Nation Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Representative Michael Balima (centre) and Chairman of the Independent Electoral Boundaries Commission Issack Hassan during the signing ceremony of the EU grant of Sh560 million to strengthen electoral process in Kenya, held at a Nairobi hotel today.
The project handled by the UNDP and IEBC aims at strengthening citizen participation and engagement in the electoral process, legal and institutional framework for elections to ensure transparency and accountability. It also aims to contribute to free and fair elections by strengthening the electoral justice sector through collaboration with stakeholders including political parties and the judiciary.
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