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admin on September 25th, 2009
The line of people waiting to see the doctors ran all the way down the street. The sun beat down on them, making them sweat in the 90-degree heat, but they didn’t care. They wanted help. One weary woman gripped the ticket numbered 394 that would allow her into the medical clinic when it was [...]
Around 3 million people live in Nairobi, Kenya. And at least one half of them—1.5 million people—live in the city’s slums, their one-room homes precariously built on mounds of garbage. The residents are regularly exposed to lung-damaging soot, dangerous pollutants, and raw sewage. They suffer illnesses resulting from poor nutrition, the lack of sanitation, and [...]
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