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Dr Stanley Kamau: Jigger-horror stories pushed me into this life

Ahadi Kenya Trust CEO Dr Stanley Kamau displays his Elder of the Burning Spear recognition.

A child whose toe fell off into the water when they were cleaning her feet. A man whose body was so badly infested that he died of the complications at the last minute when the rescue team arrived.

A family that was heavily infested and a mother who had just given birth and one of her elder daughters was cutting the umbilical cord using teeth because they could not even afford a razor blade. They had just buried their infant in a carton box a week earlier.

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