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Margaret’s mother and Aunties all earned their living by prostitution. Early on, Margaret decided that was not the life for her. She went to live with her Christian grandmother. When she grew up, Margaret got married and had three children. When her youngest was only 3 months old, her husband left her, but not before […]
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Mary has four young daughters aged between 13 and a few months. She also has a drunken husband who comes and goes at will and who she would like to be free of. She does not want him to move to Shena’s village with her. Her house, though not the smallest, is one of the dingiest and depressing we have ever visited. She lives in a small town and has no toilet.
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Lillian and Sally are neighbours. Both of them were brewing illegally. Lillian even had a small mud hut at the bottom of her shamba which served as a pub. Both ladies were unhappy with their occupation, however, and lived in constant fear of being discovered by the police. This would have meant immediate imprisonment as […]
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Anne is very hardworking lady. She is mother to Anthony, one of the boys at Seed School. They live in a mud hut but Anne is very house proud and keeps her home and land very tidy. When we visited her in February, she was doing one of her weekly chores which is to do a dung (dung mixed with mud) scree over the floor of her kitchen.
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