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One woman's desire to rehabilitate destitute children

Lucy Wilma with some of the children inside one of the empty classrooms at the rehabilitation centre in Maralal. She says any children flogged into her house for aid until she decided to start a rehabilitation to centre.[ PHOTO by BOAZ KIPNG’ENOH/STANDARD]

Samburu, Kenya: In the vast land of Samburu County, devastating effects of decades-long, deadly rustling sprout from the ground like sore thumbs. Hunger pricks the wound each year.

Poverty is the ultimate consequence of these problems as women are turned into widows and children rendered orphans.

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