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Interesting things to know about the towel

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...

Dedication to our defence forces

Tunalala kwenye vumbi na matope ili wewe ulale kitandani,
Tunala na bunduki ili wewe ulale na mwenzi wako,
Tunalala porini ili wewe ulale kwenye nyumba,
Unavaa kofia maridadi ya kupendeza, sisi tunavaa kofia ngumu na nzito za chuma,
Unavaa "vest" nzuri ya pamba, sisi tunavaa "vest" za shaba,
Unavaa mkanda wa ngozi kiunoni, sisi tunavaa mikanda ya risasi,
Asubuhi unaamshwa na "alarm" nzuri ya simu yako, sisi tunaamshwa na milio ya mabomu na risasi,
Unatembelea gari zuri la thamani, sisi tunatembelea vifaru na malori,
Unakula chakula kizuri ukipendacho, tunakula wadudu na matunda porini,
Tunakesha ili wewe upate usingizi,
Tunaua ili wewe uishi,
Tunaumia ili wewe upone,
Tunaitoa sadaka "leo yetu" kwa manufaa ya "kesho yako",
Tunatoa sadaka maisha yetu ili kutetea maisha yako,
Tunakupigania usiku na mchana kwa sababu tunakupenda,
Tunaipenda nchi yetu,
Sisi ni wanajeshi,
Sisi ni wazalendo,
Sisi ni mashujaa,
Ombea wote waliofia vitani,
Wamekufa wakitetea nchi yetu,
Wamekufa wakitetea uhai wako,
Ni mashujaa wetu,
Nchi yetu,
Amani yetu,
Jeshi letu.
DEDICATE TO OUR DEFENCE FORCE....
"FOR GOD AND MY COUNTRY" One of the words of the frontline KDF

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