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Lemeri Kobotek, 12, fetches water from a well in Nginyang, East Pokot. She walks more than 15km every day to the well. [PHOTO: BONIFACE THUKU/STANDARD]
By VINCENT MABATUK and LEONARD KULEI
“Please take us there,” the little girls in the expansive East Pokot region of Baringo County shouted almost in unison as we approached them.
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