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  • Kenyan American singer songwriter J S Ondara performing at The Slaughtered Lamb in London, England, United Kingdom. J.S. Ondara performed songs from Tales of America, his debut album. Ondara grew up in Nairobi, Kenya, listening to American alternative rock and writing his own songs. In 2013 after his discovery of the music of Dylan, he moved to Minneapolis to pursue a career in music.
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  • Kenyan American singer songwriter J S Ondara performing at The Slaughtered Lamb in London, England, United Kingdom. J.S. Ondara performed songs from Tales of America, his debut album. Ondara grew up in Nairobi, Kenya, listening to American alternative rock and writing his own songs. In 2013 after his discovery of the music of Dylan, he moved to Minneapolis to pursue a career in music.
    20190121_j s ondara_013.jpg
  • Kenyan American singer songwriter J S Ondara performing at The Slaughtered Lamb in London, England, United Kingdom. J.S. Ondara performed songs from Tales of America, his debut album. Ondara grew up in Nairobi, Kenya, listening to American alternative rock and writing his own songs. In 2013 after his discovery of the music of Dylan, he moved to Minneapolis to pursue a career in music.
    20190121_j s ondara_011.jpg
  • Kenyan American singer songwriter J S Ondara performing at The Slaughtered Lamb in London, England, United Kingdom. J.S. Ondara performed songs from Tales of America, his debut album. Ondara grew up in Nairobi, Kenya, listening to American alternative rock and writing his own songs. In 2013 after his discovery of the music of Dylan, he moved to Minneapolis to pursue a career in music.
    20190121_j s ondara_004.jpg
  • Kenyan American singer songwriter J S Ondara performing at The Slaughtered Lamb in London, England, United Kingdom. J.S. Ondara performed songs from Tales of America, his debut album. Ondara grew up in Nairobi, Kenya, listening to American alternative rock and writing his own songs. In 2013 after his discovery of the music of Dylan, he moved to Minneapolis to pursue a career in music.
    20190121_j s ondara_001.jpg
  • On the 100th anniversary of the Royal Air Force RAF and following a flypast of 100 aircraft formations representing Britains air defence history which flew over central London, a Kenyan officer leaves Horseguards, passing the memorial to those killed in the 2002 Bali bombing, on 10th July 2018, in London, England.
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  • Kenyan American singer songwriter J S Ondara performing at The Slaughtered Lamb in London, England, United Kingdom. J.S. Ondara performed songs from Tales of America, his debut album. Ondara grew up in Nairobi, Kenya, listening to American alternative rock and writing his own songs. In 2013 after his discovery of the music of Dylan, he moved to Minneapolis to pursue a career in music.
    20190121_j s ondara_023.jpg
  • Kenyan American singer songwriter J S Ondara performing at The Slaughtered Lamb in London, England, United Kingdom. J.S. Ondara performed songs from Tales of America, his debut album. Ondara grew up in Nairobi, Kenya, listening to American alternative rock and writing his own songs. In 2013 after his discovery of the music of Dylan, he moved to Minneapolis to pursue a career in music.
    20190121_j s ondara_021.jpg
  • Kenyan American singer songwriter J S Ondara performing at The Slaughtered Lamb in London, England, United Kingdom. J.S. Ondara performed songs from Tales of America, his debut album. Ondara grew up in Nairobi, Kenya, listening to American alternative rock and writing his own songs. In 2013 after his discovery of the music of Dylan, he moved to Minneapolis to pursue a career in music.
    20190121_j s ondara_016.jpg
  • Kenyan American singer songwriter J S Ondara performing at The Slaughtered Lamb in London, England, United Kingdom. J.S. Ondara performed songs from Tales of America, his debut album. Ondara grew up in Nairobi, Kenya, listening to American alternative rock and writing his own songs. In 2013 after his discovery of the music of Dylan, he moved to Minneapolis to pursue a career in music.
    20190121_j s ondara_015.jpg
  • Kenyan American singer songwriter J S Ondara performing at The Slaughtered Lamb in London, England, United Kingdom. J.S. Ondara performed songs from Tales of America, his debut album. Ondara grew up in Nairobi, Kenya, listening to American alternative rock and writing his own songs. In 2013 after his discovery of the music of Dylan, he moved to Minneapolis to pursue a career in music.
    20190121_j s ondara_012.jpg
  • Kenyan American singer songwriter J S Ondara performing at The Slaughtered Lamb in London, England, United Kingdom. J.S. Ondara performed songs from Tales of America, his debut album. Ondara grew up in Nairobi, Kenya, listening to American alternative rock and writing his own songs. In 2013 after his discovery of the music of Dylan, he moved to Minneapolis to pursue a career in music.
    20190121_j s ondara_009.jpg
  • Kenyan American singer songwriter J S Ondara performing at The Slaughtered Lamb in London, England, United Kingdom. J.S. Ondara performed songs from Tales of America, his debut album. Ondara grew up in Nairobi, Kenya, listening to American alternative rock and writing his own songs. In 2013 after his discovery of the music of Dylan, he moved to Minneapolis to pursue a career in music.
    20190121_j s ondara_007.jpg
  • Kenyan American singer songwriter J S Ondara performing at The Slaughtered Lamb in London, England, United Kingdom. J.S. Ondara performed songs from Tales of America, his debut album. Ondara grew up in Nairobi, Kenya, listening to American alternative rock and writing his own songs. In 2013 after his discovery of the music of Dylan, he moved to Minneapolis to pursue a career in music.
    20190121_j s ondara_005.jpg
  • Kenyan American singer songwriter J S Ondara performing at The Slaughtered Lamb in London, England, United Kingdom. J.S. Ondara performed songs from Tales of America, his debut album. Ondara grew up in Nairobi, Kenya, listening to American alternative rock and writing his own songs. In 2013 after his discovery of the music of Dylan, he moved to Minneapolis to pursue a career in music.
    20190121_j s ondara_003.jpg
  • Pee Poople is an new  organisation  from a Sweden.  People of Kibera slum are paid 2 KSH (Kenyan Shillings) to poo. Their faeces is used as a high grade fertilizer that has a market value.
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  • Kenyan American singer songwriter J S Ondara performing at The Slaughtered Lamb in London, England, United Kingdom. J.S. Ondara performed songs from Tales of America, his debut album. Ondara grew up in Nairobi, Kenya, listening to American alternative rock and writing his own songs. In 2013 after his discovery of the music of Dylan, he moved to Minneapolis to pursue a career in music.
    20190121_j s ondara_022.jpg
  • Kenyan American singer songwriter J S Ondara performing at The Slaughtered Lamb in London, England, United Kingdom. J.S. Ondara performed songs from Tales of America, his debut album. Ondara grew up in Nairobi, Kenya, listening to American alternative rock and writing his own songs. In 2013 after his discovery of the music of Dylan, he moved to Minneapolis to pursue a career in music.
    20190121_j s ondara_019.jpg
  • Kenyan American singer songwriter J S Ondara performing at The Slaughtered Lamb in London, England, United Kingdom. J.S. Ondara performed songs from Tales of America, his debut album. Ondara grew up in Nairobi, Kenya, listening to American alternative rock and writing his own songs. In 2013 after his discovery of the music of Dylan, he moved to Minneapolis to pursue a career in music.
    20190121_j s ondara_017.jpg
  • Kenyan American singer songwriter J S Ondara performing at The Slaughtered Lamb in London, England, United Kingdom. J.S. Ondara performed songs from Tales of America, his debut album. Ondara grew up in Nairobi, Kenya, listening to American alternative rock and writing his own songs. In 2013 after his discovery of the music of Dylan, he moved to Minneapolis to pursue a career in music.
    20190121_j s ondara_014.jpg
  • Kenyan American singer songwriter J S Ondara performing at The Slaughtered Lamb in London, England, United Kingdom. J.S. Ondara performed songs from Tales of America, his debut album. Ondara grew up in Nairobi, Kenya, listening to American alternative rock and writing his own songs. In 2013 after his discovery of the music of Dylan, he moved to Minneapolis to pursue a career in music.
    20190121_j s ondara_010.jpg
  • Kenyan American singer songwriter J S Ondara performing at The Slaughtered Lamb in London, England, United Kingdom. J.S. Ondara performed songs from Tales of America, his debut album. Ondara grew up in Nairobi, Kenya, listening to American alternative rock and writing his own songs. In 2013 after his discovery of the music of Dylan, he moved to Minneapolis to pursue a career in music.
    20190121_j s ondara_006.jpg
  • Kenyan American singer songwriter J S Ondara performing at The Slaughtered Lamb in London, England, United Kingdom. J.S. Ondara performed songs from Tales of America, his debut album. Ondara grew up in Nairobi, Kenya, listening to American alternative rock and writing his own songs. In 2013 after his discovery of the music of Dylan, he moved to Minneapolis to pursue a career in music.
    20190121_j s ondara_002.jpg
  • Kenyan American singer songwriter J S Ondara performing at The Slaughtered Lamb in London, England, United Kingdom. J.S. Ondara performed songs from Tales of America, his debut album. Ondara grew up in Nairobi, Kenya, listening to American alternative rock and writing his own songs. In 2013 after his discovery of the music of Dylan, he moved to Minneapolis to pursue a career in music.
    20190121_j s ondara_018.jpg
  • Kenyan American singer songwriter J S Ondara performing at The Slaughtered Lamb in London, England, United Kingdom. J.S. Ondara performed songs from Tales of America, his debut album. Ondara grew up in Nairobi, Kenya, listening to American alternative rock and writing his own songs. In 2013 after his discovery of the music of Dylan, he moved to Minneapolis to pursue a career in music.
    20190121_j s ondara_008.jpg
  • Kitchen staff prepare food for all the pupils at Kibera School, Nairobi. The school consists of 6 teachers with approximately 60 children in each class.  Undugu Society of Kenya (USK) are an NGO who run various programmes to help the school and pupils including a lunchtime feeding program.
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  • Plates of freshly cooked food are given out by the kitchen staff to the pupils at Kibera School, Nairobi. The school consists of 6 teachers with approximately 60 children in each class.  Undugu Society of Kenya (USK), an NGO who run various programmes to help the school and pupils including a lunchtime feeding program.
    11-undugu-0271.jpg
  • Children at Kibera School dance and tell stories during break time. There are only 2 schools within Kibera slum, Nairobi, the biggest slum dwelling in Africa.
    11-undugu-0163.jpg
  • A nomadic pastoralist herds his goats out of the Kaeris water reservoir, which was built by the community with help from Oxfam. The reservoir is about 60m in diameter and is used to store animal drinking water.
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  • A herdsman travels across the lake on a boat. The Turkana herdsmen have had to change their traditional way of living as pastoralists and learn new skills. Some of the younger men have become fishermen on Lake Turkana.
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  • Sarah, at Atnas Kandie Primary School. Sarah was lucky enough to find a sponsor to pay her admission fees and cover her uniform and books – barriers that prohibit many of Kenya’s poorest children from attending the country’s free primary schools. Thanks to the charity Marys Meals she also gets school meal, hugely important when Sarah’s mother is so poor they are often made homeless while saving for the rent. When she is not at school she works on the dumps collecting rubbish for the family to survive. <br />
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Making a living from collecting rubbish in Eldoret is no easy job; disease, injury, substance abuse and even the threat of violence is an everyday reality for the people who live and work at the dump.  It’s especially hard for the mothers and their children forced through poverty to scrape a living of around $1 dollar a day.
    Eldoret29_1.jpg
  • Lucy (13 ) photographed in one of the classrooms at Attnas Kandie School. She collects rubbish when she’s not at school. She is one of five children – the eldest is at college but the other siblings help to support him by sorting rubbish. Lucy’s mum sometimes washes clothes for other people but is sick and can’t often earn enough to feed the children. Lucy is now in primary school and gets lunch there every day thanks to Mary’s Meals. Making a living from collecting rubbish is no easy job; disease, injury, substance abuse and even the threat of violence is an everyday reality for the people who live and work at the dumps in Eldoret.  It’s especially hard for the mothers and their children forced through poverty to scrape a living of around $1 dollar a day.
    Eldoret06_1.jpg
  • A family whose children are supported by Wema to go to the Mari Mani School Nr Mombassa, Kenya. Wema is a NGO organisation in Kenya that provides rehabilitation programs for street children; poor, disadvantaged youth; and, orphaned and vulnerable children affected by poverty.
    11-wema-7772.jpg
  • Children from Kibera slum attend the local school where they learn English.  The school consists of 6 teachers with approximately 60 children in each class.  Undugu Society of Kenya (USK) is an NGO who run various programmes help the school and pupils with books and other materials.
    11-undugu-9994.jpg
  • Children from Kibera slum attend the local school where they learn English.  The school consists of 6 teachers with approximately 60 children in each class.  Undugu Society of Kenya (USK) is an NGO who run various programmes help the school and pupils with books and other materials.
    11-undugu-9987.jpg
  • A teacher stands at the front of the class teaching English to a year 3 class. The school consists of 6 teachers with approximately 60 children in each class.  Undugu Society of Kenya (USK) are an NGO who run various programmes to help the school and pupils including a lunchtime feeding program.
    11-undugu-9942.jpg
  • Julia Ngeri is the president of the children’s association in the Mwiki slum. They  have weekly meetings to discuss what is going on.  They inform Undugu Society of Kenya (USK) of street children with the aim to persuade them off the streets.  USK is an NGO based in Nairobi, Kenya.
    11-undugu-0861.jpg
  • A finance self help group (SHG) called the Neema group based near the Kitengela Centre, 40km from Nairobi, Kenya. They meet regularly talk about saving money and to give out loans to each other. Rhoda is their trainer and brings support from the Undugu Society of Kenya (USK), an NGO based in Nairobi, Kenya.
    11-undugu-0620.jpg
  • A finance self help group (SHG) called the Neema group based near the Kitengela Centre, 40km from Nairobi, Kenya. They meet regularly talk about saving money and to give out loans to each other. Rhoda is their trainer and brings support from the Undugu Society of Kenya (USK), an NGO based in Nairobi, Kenya.
    11-undugu-0604.jpg
  • Pupils of Mathare School give a performance to the younger pupils in Nairobi, Kenya. Undugu Society of Kenya (USK) are an NGO who run various programmes that assist the school and children.
    11-undugu-0527.jpg
  • Children that have recently been persuaded to leave the streets in Dandora slum wait at the Undugu centre before heading off to an Undugu centre. They collect plastic and sell to recycling dealers to earn a little money. Undugu Society of Kenya (USK), an NGO who run various programmes in the area and at local schools.
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  • Children playing on a small section of spare land deep inside Kibera Slum, Nairobi, Kenya. Kibera is the largest slum in Nairobi and the second largest in Africa.
    11-undugu-0326.jpg
  • Plates of freshly cooked food are given out by the kitchen staff to the pupils at Kibera School, Nairobi. The school consists of 6 teachers with approximately 60 children in each class.  Undugu Society of Kenya (USK), an NGO who run various programmes to help the school and pupils including a lunchtime feeding program.
    11-undugu-0303.jpg
  • The children queuing for food and getting their hands washed at lunchtime at Kibera School, Nairobi. The school consists of 6 teachers with approximately 60 children in each class.  Undugu Society of Kenya (USK), an NGO  run various programmes to help the school and pupils including a lunchtime feeding program.
    11-undugu-0252.jpg
  • The children of Kibera School, Nairobi, line up to get their lunchtime meal.  There are 6 teachers with approximately 60 children in each class.  Undugu Society of Kenya (USK), a local NGO run various programmes to help the school and pupils including a lunchtime feeding program.
    11-undugu-0219.jpg
  • Children at Kibera School dance and tell stories during break time. There are only 2 schools within Kibera slum, Nairobi, the biggest slum dwelling in Africa.
    11-undugu-0194.jpg
  • A boy does a handstand at the AFCIC residential centre in Thika, Kenya. AFCIC - Action for children in conflict, help children who have been affected by various forms conflict or crisis.
    11-afcic-9787.jpg
  • In the village of Lokitaung Oxfam organise the removal of the Prosopis bush, a dangerous shrub that grows 4-inch thorns. Injuries from the poisonous thorns are common and in some cases have caused the loss of limbs. The bush was introduced by colonialists. Lokitaung is in the Turkana region of Northern Kenya.
    05-turkana_8922.jpg
  • In Longech village, Northern Kenya, the UK based charity Merlin run a mobile Voluntary Counselling & Testing (VCT) unit for HIV and AIDS. VCT counsellor John Baraza talks to a local man & wife about living with the virus and illness.
    05-turkana_7975.jpg
  • A teacher stands at the front of the class teaching English to a year 3 class. The school consists of 6 teachers with approximately 60 children in each class.  Undugu Society of Kenya (USK) are an NGO who run various programmes to help the school and pupils including a lunchtime feeding program.
    11-undugu-9978.jpg
  • Children studying at their desks in the class 3 school room. The school consists of 6 teachers with approximately 60 children in each class.  Undugu Society of Kenya (USK) are an NGO who run various programmes to help the school and pupils including a lunchtime feeding program.
    11-undugu-9968.jpg
  • Julia Ngeri is the president of the children’s association in the Mwiki slum. They  have weekly meetings to discuss what is going on.  They inform Undugu Society of Kenya (USK) of street children with the aim to persuade them off the streets.  USK is an NGO based in Nairobi, Kenya.
    11-undugu-0818.jpg
  • Pupils of Mathare School give a performance to the younger pupils in Nairobi, Kenya. Undugu Society of Kenya (USK) are an NGO who run various programmes that assist the school and children.
    11-undugu-0446.jpg
  • Pupils of Mathare School give a performance to the younger pupils in Nairobi, Kenya. Undugu Society of Kenya (USK) are an NGO who run various programmes that assist the school and children.
    11-undugu-0427.jpg
  • The children of Kibera School, Nairobi, line up to get their lunchtime meal.  There are 6 teachers with approximately 60 children in each class.  Undugu Society of Kenya (USK), a local NGO run various programmes to help the school and pupils including a lunchtime feeding program.
    11-undugu-0216.jpg
  • Children at Kibera School dance and tell stories during break time. There are only 2 schools within Kibera slum, Nairobi, the biggest slum dwelling in Africa.
    11-undugu-0150.jpg
  • Children at Kibera School dance and tell stories during break time. There are only 2 schools within Kibera slum, Nairobi, the biggest slum dwelling in Africa.
    11-undugu-0061.jpg
  • Children running down the corridors at break time in Kibera School in the slums of Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya.
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  • A couple of boy with their personal possessions box at the AFCIC centre in Thika, Kenya. AFCIC - Action for children in conflict, help children who have been affected by various forms conflict or crisis.
    11-afcic-8753.jpg
  • Pius Nyaga sits on his motorbike outside of Makongeni market, Thika, Kenya.  Pius helps Action for children in conflict, Afcic, out with transport. The market work closely with Afcic and are trying to encourage the kids to go to school. The manager has banned children from working in the market during school hours.
    11-afcic-1009.jpg
  • Lucy (13 ) photographed in one of the classrooms at Attnas Kandie School.<br />
She collects rubbish when she’s not at school. She is one of five children – the eldest is at college but the other siblings help to support him by sorting rubbish. Lucy’s mum sometimes washes clothes for other people but is sick and can’t often earn enough to feed the children. Lucy is now in primary school and gets lunch there every day thanks to Mary’s Meals.<br />
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Making a living from collecting rubbish is no easy job; disease, injury, substance abuse and even the threat of violence is an everyday reality for the people who live and work at the dumps in Eldoret.  It’s especially hard for the mothers and their children forced through poverty to scrape a living of around $1 dollar a day.
    Eldoret05_1.jpg
  • A finance self help group (SHG) called the Neema group based near the Kitengela Centre, 40km from Nairobi, Kenya. They meet regularly talk about saving money and to give out loans to each other. Rhoda is their trainer and brings support from the Undugu Society of Kenya (USK), an NGO based in Nairobi, Kenya.
    11-undugu-0613.jpg
  • Plates of food are ready to be given out to the pupils at Kibera School, Nairobi. The school consists of 6 teachers with approximately 60 children in each class.  Undugu Society of Kenya (USK), an NGO run various programmes to help the school and pupils including a lunchtime feeding program.
    11-undugu-0224.jpg
  • Frederick Kamau the manager of Makongeni market, Thika, Kenya. The market work closely with AFCIC, Action for children in conflict, and are trying to encourage the children to go to school. Frederick has banned children from working in the market during school hours.
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  • A street scene in the Kiandutu slum. Open sewers are a regular scene in the biggest slum in Thika, Kenya.
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  • The tomato stalls at Makongeni Market, Thika, Kenya.  The market work closely with Afcic, Action for children in conflict, and are trying to encourage the kids to go to school. The manager has banned children from working in the market during school hours.
    11-afcic-0920.jpg
  • Peter (12) and Moriani (15) both street boys that work outside the Makongeni market, Thika, Kenya. They are not allowed inside the market during school time as the market manager has banned all children from working during school hours. The market work closely with Afcic, Action for children in conflict, and are trying to encourage the kids to go to school.
    11-afcic-1054.jpg
  • Moriani (15)  and Peter (12) both street boys that work outside the Makongeni market, Thika, Kenya. They are not allowed inside the market during school time as the market manager has banned all children from working during school hours. The market work closely with Afcic, Action for children in conflict, and are trying to encourage the kids to go to school.
    11-afcic-1052.jpg
  • A water melon stall in the Makongeni market, Thika, Kenya. The market work closely with Afcic, Action for children in conflict, and are trying to encourage the kids to go to school. The manager has banned children from working in the market during school hours.
    11-afcic-0932.jpg
  • Eldoret’s main Dump nick named by the locals, ironically, as ‘California’ is home to a community of Kenyans who make their living here recycling plastic, metal charcoal and even scavenging for food either for themselves or for their pigs. The average adult here earns about 150 -200 Kenyan shillings (£1-1.30) The consequences for those who work here on a regular basis including woman and children as young as 7 is  tough; with disease, injury, substance abuse and even the threat of violence an everyday reality.
    Eldoret17_1.jpg
  • A shoeless child wanders on to Eldoret’s main dump undeterred or unaware of  the constant  risk of cuts from broken glass and infection from needles dumped here by the hospital . ( model release unavailable) <br />
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The Dump nick named by the locals, ironically, as ‘California’ is home to a community of Kenyans who make their living here recycling plastic, metal charcoal and even scavenging for food either for themselves or for their pigs. The average adult here earns about 150 -200 Kenyan shillings (£1-1.30) The consequences for those who work here on a regular basis including woman and children as young as 7 is  tough; with disease, injury, substance abuse and even the threat of violence an everyday reality.
    Eldoret27_1.jpg
  • A shoeless child wanders on to Eldoret’s main dump undeterred or unaware of  the constant  risk of cuts from broken glass and infection from needles dumped here by the hospital .<br />
<br />
Eldoret’s main Dump nick named by the locals, ironically, as ‘California’ is home to a community of Kenyans who make their living here recycling plastic, metal charcoal and even scavenging for food either for themselves or for their pigs. The average adult here earns about 150 -200 Kenyan shillings (£1-1.30) The consequences for those who work here on a regular basis including woman and children as young as 7 is  tough; with disease, injury, substance abuse and even the threat of violence an everyday reality.
    Eldoret25_1.jpg
  • Eldoret’s main Dump nick named by the locals, ironically, as ‘California’ is home to a community of Kenyans who make their living here recycling plastic, metal charcoal and even scavenging for food either for themselves or for their pigs. The average adult here earns about 150 -200 Kenyan shillings (£1-1.30) The consequences for those who work here on a regular basis including woman and children as young as 7 is  tough; with disease, injury, substance abuse and even the threat of violence an everyday reality.
    Eldoret18_1.jpg
  • Eldoret’s main Dump nick named by the locals, ironically, as ‘California’ is home to a community of Kenyans who make their living here recycling plastic, metal charcoal and even scavenging for food either for themselves or for their pigs. The average adult here earns about 150 -200 Kenyan shillings (£1-1.30) The consequences for those who work here on a regular basis including woman and children as young as 7 is  tough; with disease, injury, substance abuse and even the threat of violence an everyday reality.
    Eldoret08_1.jpg
  • Eldoret’s main Dump nick named by the locals, ironically, as ‘California’ is home to a community of Kenyans who make their living here recycling plastic, metal charcoal and even scavenging for food either for themselves or for their pigs. The average adult here earns about 150 -200 Kenyan shillings (£1-1.30) The consequences for those who work here on a regular basis including woman and children as young as 7 is  tough; with disease, injury, substance abuse and even the threat of violence an everyday reality.
    Eldoret21_1.jpg
  • Sarah Wanjiru, 10yrs with mother Jane Wajira , and Jane’s grandchild pose for pictures next a small tip where they have been picking rubbish to make some money. They recycle mainly plastic; on average they can make up to 150-200 Ksh a day ( $1-2). The dump here is smaller with less pickings but safer than the main dump in Eldoret. <br />
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Jane had her first baby when she was as young as 12-13; she now has four children which she cares for her self . Her husband was killed in the Kenyan riots of 2007/8. Her 10-year-old daughter Sarah comes to help her sort rubbish when she’s not at school. Sarah was lucky enough to find a sponsor to pay her admission fees and cover her uniform and books – barriers that prohibit many of Kenya’s poorest children from attending the country’s free primary schools.
    Eldoret02_1.jpg
  • Sarah  10yrs, with Lucy 13 yrs (left) at the hostel where they live. The girls are good friends, and Lucy is like a member of the family to Sarah’s mother. The block is typical; 20 families  live in one room houses paying 500 -1000 Kenyan shillings a month( £4-£8). The adults are separated from the children by a curtain .  They share a latrine and standpipe .
    Eldoret28_1.jpg
  • David (58) photographed collecting rubbish at a local dump with co workers, David was forced to make his living from the dumps following the Violence of the 2007/8 Kenyan elections . He lost his property when it was burned down and his living ( he had cows and would sell milk)  . He is a member of the Kikyu tribe who were targeted. Over a thousand people were killed and many maimed or injured, many from this area. He has a daughter in grade 2 he has to feed who is at school.
    Eldoret24_1.jpg
  • Sarah Wanjiru, 10yrs with mother Jane Wajira , and Jane’s grandchild pose for pictures next a small tip where they have been picking rubbish to make some money. They recycle mainly plastic; on average they can make up to 150-200 Ksh a day ( $1-2). The dump here is smaller with less pickings but safer than the main dump in Eldoret. <br />
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Jane had her first baby when she was as young as 12-13; she now has four children which she cares for her self . Her husband was killed in the Kenyan riots of 2007/8. Her 10-year-old daughter Sarah comes to help her sort rubbish when she’s not at school. Sarah was lucky enough to find a sponsor to pay her admission fees and cover her uniform and books – barriers that prohibit many of Kenya’s poorest children from attending the country’s free primary schools.
    Eldoret03_1.jpg
  • David ( 58) photographed at the hostel of a friend he collects rubbish with. David was forced to make his living from the dumps following the Violence of the 2007/8 Kenyan elections . He lost his property when it was burned down and his living ( he had cows and would sell milk)  . He is a member of the Kikyu tribe who were targeted. Over a thousand people were killed and many maimed or injured, many from this area. He has a daughter in grade 2 he has to feed who is at school.<br />
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“They looted in everything in my home and set fire to it” he says.  He was in refugee camp for one year before a relative offered him a place to stay in. “I use to make a living at the big dump but I don’t like it the people there are rude and dangerous, they get high and mug people, beat them up - now I collect the rubbish at my local dump and nearby”
    Eldoret26_1.jpg
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