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Young Mothers have illicit affairs to pay bills

By Edwin Makiche

The morning sun over Bomet County finds Chepkoech, 20, walking along the road as she ferries a jerry can of water from the Mara River to a roadside hotel at Mulot shopping centre.  Unlike other locals whose workday has just begun, she has been busy all night doing the same thing she has done for the last five years.

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