 Kapiti is in Machakos County. Machakos County has one of the highest burden of rabies in Kenya. Kenya is one of the countries that has produced a national rabies elimination strategy in line with the global aspiration to reduce the human deaths from canine-mediated rabies to zero by the year 2030. It is estimated that about 2,000 people die from rabies in Kenya and around 60,000 people globally. And mainly, it's children under the age of 15 because they're the ones who usually play with dogs and they are more at risk of being beaten by dogs. To the end and eliminate rabies from this county. But I hope that this county will also work with the neighboring counties so that we do not have a real caution because in a disease that is trans-boundary in nature like this, we need everybody to be clean in order to stay clean. But I'm very pleased that Ilry is part of this with so many of you. Today we're celebrating World Rabies Day. So this is a global event to raise awareness about rabies, which is a neglected zoonotic disease, and to encourage everyone to work towards eliminating this fatal disease. I'm from Changwe. And I am one of the first to come to Changwe to live, to have a place to live in and to have a place to sleep. I'm happy to be living in a country where everyone is able to survive. But I'm very happy that there are people living here who are not at home. I'm very happy that there is a place to live because there are people who are In the case of rabies in Machakos County, I can say that the cases have really reduced that is after the training that we receive for our officers that were supported by International Livestock Research Institute and that has really equipped our officers in our skills to manage these cases. Last day, creating awareness to the community in terms of rabies and bringing the animal for vaccination, all that efforts have really added to the reduction of the rabies cases that we receive at the facility level. We're really sort of trying to reach herd immunity and so we're trying to reach the point at which if an infected dog bites another there's a high probability that that other dog has immunity and therefore the disease will not be transmitted. We need to emphasise a lot on people getting their dogs vaccinated because it's the most cost-effective way to actually beat rabies. With that markedly reduction of the rabies cases in Machakos County, I would really love to see that replicated in other county whereby the officers are going to be trained on case management as well as advocacy and creation of awareness in the community, in other communities to ensure that the domestic animal dogs and cats are brought for vaccination which is supported by Livestock Research Institute.