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Boiling maize takes my children to school: says single-mum, businesswoman

It’s about 2pm on a hot Wednesday afternoon when we meet Lydia Moraa Omari, boiling maize in a big sufuria near Stage Mpya area off Outering Road in Pipeline Ward.

Sweat droplets stream down her face as she adds more firewood into the hot burning jiko; some passers-by stop and stare while others laugh and shake their head.

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