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Goats, chickens give hope to malnourished Kitui residents

Goats, chickens give hope to malnourished Kitui residents. [File, Standard]

When drought and famine hit Kitui County two years ago, 31-year-old Purity Kindile in Imale village in Kitui East was highly malnourished and heavily pregnant.

She was living with her aged mother and her son who was also malnourished, surviving on porridge that they would occasionally cook after days of hunger and near starvation.

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