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...
Over the last eight years, Ngina Kenyatta has been serving as director of the Inuka programme, a charitable organisation which provides scholarships, life skills, mentorship, counselling, leadership camps, community service, soft & digital skills training to bright kids from needy and underprivileged families not to mention career workshops and internship opportunities for university graduates.
Inuka Programme has granted scholarships to over 3,000 students, 180 of them having studied abroad them since it was founded 7 years ago.
Ngina is married to Alex Mwai alias Sam Junior and they are blessed with one kid.
We recognize and applaud her continued selfless service to the humanity in this very special day of International Women's Day.
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