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I sold all my livestock but owe herbalist treating my child

Olive Waruguru with her mother Margaret Wambui. Olive is one of the youngest cancer survivors placed on palliative care to help relieve pain. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

Eight-year-old Faith Kipkurui experiences shortness of breath as she basks in the sun at their Sirikwa home in Kuresoi. Lying on a sack, she is restless and her excruciating pain leaves her father, Abraham Mutai, with haunted, sunken eyes.

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