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Young Turkana women find solace in beadwork

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Kenyan beadworks are increasingly becoming popular in foreign countries. [Bakari Ang'ela, Standard]

A group of young women from Turkana County have found solace in beadwork, making ornaments that are now finding their way to markets in the United States of America and Europe.

They say they were running away from early marriages, and the devastating effects of drought and banditry when they discovered beading.

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