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A cleared section at Kiptunga Forest in the Mau Forest complex on September 26, 2022. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]
From a distance, it looks like heaps of trash beneath towering indigenous trees in Kiptunga forest, but up close, the tens of 'heaps' are makeshift homes that host hundreds of people practicing the Shamba System.
The mushrooming makeshift huts as per their structure, look hideous - they are constructed deep in what looks like a hollow with a low roof covered in polythene and heaped with soil and grass to pass for thrash.
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