On Saturday, 21 February 2026, the leadership of the Blue Community Water Sector Workers Association of Kenya (WASWAK), led by Sir Charles Chitechi, Founder & President of WASWAK and Regional Coordinator for the Blue Community Africa, Eastern Region, hosted Yvonne Apiyo Brändle-Amolo from Switzerland at a hotel in Kisumu. The Kenyan-Swiss, Yvonne Apiyo Brändle-Amolo is a Blue Community Ambassador, an environmental and social activist, and a co-leads of the AMANI Centre, which runs several WASH programmes in Nairobi’s Kibera slums.
In Switzerland, she is a political leader and a strong advocate for the right of everyone to access clean, safe, affordable and sustainable water and sanitation.
Yvonne Apiyo is currently in Kenya launching the CO-KENDAI project, an AI and Robotics collaboration project between the Southern Denmark University in partnership with Kenyatta University, Open University Kenya and a thrid Kenyan university. The Danish scientists and Kenyatta university students will be at Mpala research center and Ol Pejeta conservancy in Nanyuki for ten days demonstrating how to collect data on wildlife and water conservation using drones.
Our meeting focused primarily on our possible collaboration in the following areas:
- Digital and smart climate initiatives for the conservation of our water resources, using drones and robots and the latest technology;
- The use of drones in the digitalisation of our water and sewage reticulation system. Digitalisation has proven to be an effective modern tool for non-revenue water (NRW) management within water supply companies (WSPs). The possibility of our members being sponsored to attend higher learning institutions that will partner with us on this programme, such as Meru University, which has already introduced a Bachelor of Science in Water and Sanitation to study this modern technology in depth.
- We also looked into the possible collaborate on advocacy for the human right to water and sanitation for all under the Kenya Blue Community Africa Network.
In attendance at the meeting was Mr Joshua Ndalo, Secretary General of WASWAK.
Sir Charles Chitechi, President WASWAK
