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The women quarry workers of Kieni

A group of women breaking stones at Kiganjo quarry in Kieni, to make hardcore stones. PHOTO:KIBATA KIHU/STANDARD

Every day for the past two years, Agnes Wangui has chipped away at rocks in the hot sun for her sustenance and that of her five children.

For Wangui, who lives in Gatei village - Kieni Constituency, life has been a struggle that is harder than the rocks under her feet.

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