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Selling brooms is my main-stay, Kisumu hawker discloses

How I make it

KISUMU: Lack of employment has become a common tune played by Kenyan youth. However, the few who dare to embrace self employment have been able to make their ends meet and even create jobs.

Twenty-year-old Charles Eregai is one such person. Faced with an uncertain future, he left his home in Lodwar for Kisumu, with only one aim - to counter his unemployed state.

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