Nine-year-old Kenyan Stephen Wamukota has invented a hands-free hand-washing device that is operated using foot pedals and is made entirely out of wood
The invention, which requires no electricity, has two pedals. Pushing down with your left foot sets off a mechanism that distributes liquid soap from a squeeze bottle.
Young Stephen resides in Bungoma, Kenya, which lies close to the East African country’s western border with Uganda and Lake Victoria. He came up with the idea after observing people at his local market, watching a TV programme where they assemble toy cars, and hearing Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta’s information on how Covid-19 infects others through touching surfaces and one another.
His proud father, James Wamukota, remembers the moment his son thought of the idea. “He went to the market and saw people using jerrycans where the tap is blocked with a screw. So everyone who wants to use it had to touch it. Won’t that make them catch coronavirus?” he asked.
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