According
to a study conducted by the Centre for Disease Control showed that HIV infected
persons who drank clean water had less occurrences of diarrhoea and other
opportunistic diseases.
Netherlands
Ambassador to Kenya Mr. Joost Reintjes said that opportunistic infection in HIV
infected persons has also decreased as communities can now utilise an
inexpensive programme of providing safe water at point of use through
treatment, safe storage and behaviour change.
Netherlands
Ambassador to Kenya Mr. Joost Reintjes said that it was commendable that
organizations such as Safe Water and AIDS Project (SWAP) supported the findings
of the CDC by ensuring communities have clean drinking water.
The
ambassador was speaking during the presentation of the Knight in the Order of
Orange to Ms. Alie Eleveld who is Country Director with Safe Water and AIDS
Project (SWAP) in Western Kenya. The honour is conferred on persons of Dutch
origin who have rendered exceptional service to societies that they work
in.
Ms.
Eleveld was honoured for the work including her ingenious development of baby
and Family Care Centres which: provide
clean drinking water to communities as well as support them to commercially
sell other Baby/Child/Maternal Life Improving Products and Services. Through a
partnership with Procter & Gamble’s Purifier of Water (formerly Pur) brand
over 3.5 million sachets of P&G purifier of water supplies translating to
35,571,180 liters of safe drinking water have been distributed to communities
in Nyanza.
Commending
Ms Eleveld, Procter & Gamble’s Sub-Sahara Communications Associate Director
said that her efforts have enabled the company touch and improve more Kenyan
lives. “We are particularly proud of Ms.
Eleveld’s ingenious initiative The Pampers Baby & Family Care Centre which
has helped us reach more Kenyans by expanding the reach of our products. She
has opened a world of possibilities to Kenyan communities through a simple
commercial practice that has long term positive impacts while at the same time
helping us reach more people’, said Ms. Khululiwe Mabaso.
