MEET THE COMMUNITY
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Clemencia Mahiri is 85 years old and is taking care of four orphan boys age 2 to 8 years old.
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Adija Gati has 3 children. She is married to a woman, Teresia Megani. Some women do that in Kuria in order to share the work. It's called "Nyumbambuke" in Swahili. She wants to be able to stop welcoming different men into her house when she is hungry
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Esther Monje is 55 years old and is a farmer, like most of the women living in Kuria. She cannot afford education for all her children. Only one of them goes to school. The other kids collect wood and sell them. They walk 30 metres every morning to get water for all the family.
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is the secretary of the Women's Group. She found out she was HIV-positive when she was pregnant of her last baby (the boy in her arm). When she asked her husband to get tested for AIDS, he just kept quiet
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