Water and sanitation are human rights, fundamental to every child and adult.

According to the World Bank, it is the poor people who carry the greatest burden of poor sanitation with the poorest 20 percent of the population 13.5 times more likely to defecate in the open than the wealthiest 20 percent.

n the following report, KFM’s Benjamin Jumbe looks at the sanitation and health services status in some islands in Buvuma district