Clean Water In Chuka Beth Koigi’s project, Aqua Clean Initiative, aims to promote access to safe water for domestic use within the Rukindu Village in Chuka. Due to the mountainous nature of Chuka, the rivers from which the community gets their water are full of silt. At the start of Beth’s Fellowship, she was in the ideation stage. Over the course of the year, she worked with the community and experts to develop a prototype of a charcoal water filter that is affordable and effective. She has since also created educational materials around solar purification to accompany the filter. She is now being incubated and funded by the Innovation Lab at Strathmore University to scale her project.
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