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Counting the cost: Price society pays for gender violence

Judith Naliaka speaks to one of the girls seeking refuge at Peace Girls Rescue Centre in Kakamega. [Benjamin Sakwa, Standard].

Joyce* runs a mobile money shop in the heart of Kakamega town along the busy Kakamega-Webuye road.

She occasionally stops our conversation to serve customers with a beaming smile that conceals her dark past.

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