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Mother's Day: The unsung heroines amid raging floods

This woman risk her life to cross the overflow Nairobi River in Mathare 4B to Mathare 4A Slums to get food donations for her family from the Transformers Organization on May 11, 2024. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

Jane Anyango, a mother of three, sways her one-month-old baby slowly and flashes a weak but assuring smile to the infant as she attempts to calm her down.

A thudding sound in a pool of water a few meters from where she sits at Ombaka Primary School in Kisumu startles her as she shifts her attention to her other two children playing in a puddle of water.

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