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How Kibra youth are turning trash into treasure

The compresed plastic waste is turned into durable chairs and benches for schools and churches. [Maryann Muganda, Standard]

Entering Kianda Bombolulu in Kibera, Nairobi’s largest informal settlement, one is immediately struck by the overpowering stench.

The thick, unforgiving air is laced with the acrid mix of raw sewage, rotting waste and human excreta. Narrow, trash-strewn paths meander between congested iron-sheet houses and makeshift toilets.

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