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Growing up in Nairobi’s Kibera Slum meant that the quality of life for Veronica Nyambura and her brother Erick Mbugua was less than ideal. Besides the struggle to have food on the table, there was also the challenge of getting good quality, hygienic food.
Most of their food items were sourced from local grocers, and some of it was grown using less than orthodox means - it was not impossible to find vegetables grown around sewage drains. The stroke that broke the camel for Nyambura, 24, is when she fell ill from eating bad food.
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