Giving Update: St. Stephen Maraba Secondary School

Right out of the gate at St. Stephen Maraba Secondary School, life has greatly improved in many aspects that can be directly attributed to the presence of their new water and sanitation facilities that were installed last year. The school compound is evidently clean, and so are all the buildings and people in them. Students and staff here have greatly appreciated the support given to them by these projects and our team, which can be proved by the way they maintain the facilities well and taken the sanitation and hygiene training to heart.

"Health standards have greatly improved and this has lessened cases of diarrhea in the school, especially among students," said school Principal Mr. Dominic Ongeri. "There is therefore very high retention of children in school and this will definitely improve their performance progressively."

One of those students, 21-year-old Phelistus Sakwa, knows these impacts personally.

"This project has enabled us to maintain the school environment, making it attractive and so being my source of pride," she said. "In addition to that, the classrooms, latrines, and other buildings are also cleaned using water from the tank and so I hardly get diseases connected to poor sanitation and hygiene."

Principal Dominic Ongeri, student Phelistus Sakwa, another student, and Field Officer Samuel Samidi at the rain tank