Inside, the dirt floor is often swept clean around a six-foot hole, dug by hand. Martin spent much of her time training teachers in community health. They now can recognize and treat common diseases such asmalnutrition, jiggers, malaria and the flu. She developed a health curriculum for students with topics such as personal hygiene, nutrition and diarrhea prevention. The teachers have learned to administer the drugs in the school health kit.
Students now receive a health exam three times a year, which includes immunizations.
The people in Marsabit are thrilled with the significant improvement in their children. Martin agrees saying that more children come to school and those who are there are alert and receive better grades. But before health training at Sakuu Primary actually began, a big problem had to be solved. So each evening when the children went home, they had to search for water for the next day. Often the water they found was dirty.