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How honey is making life sweet for Pokot widows and single mothers

Achawa women group members extract honey at Kodich village in West Pokot County. [Peter Ochieng, Standard]

At the crack of dawn, Lucy Lodungu joins some women in one of the homes in Kodich village, West Pokot County, to extract honey.  

The previous night, the women had hired a group of men to harvest honey from their over 100 top-bar beehives.

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