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Earning a living from selling old newspapers

Nairobi; Kenya: For seven years, Florence Wanjiku, 34, has made ends meet by buying and selling old newspapers in Nairobi. This has enabled her pay school fees for her two children.

One of the children, now in Form Two, is deaf and she had to find her a special school. She says nothing will stop her from knocking on private and Government doors in search of old newspapers to turn a new page in her life and that of her children.

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