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Sand harvesting: Residents risk life and limb for Sh250 a day

Women harvesting sand at Migori River. (Photo:Denish Ochieng/Standard)

A section of women living in Wuoth Ogik have gone against the odds and ventured into sand harvesting along the crocodile-infested Migori River to make ends meet.

Although seen as a preserve of men, because of the intensive labour and energy required to engage in such an activity, the women say this is the only way they can put food on the table.

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