NAIROBI, Kenya — Mercy Nandutu, 42, a single mother of two, left her native home in Chwele, western Kenya, more than a decade ago to work in the tea plantations in Kericho County—the leading tea producer in the country. “I started picking tea by hand in 2010, which has been my only source of livelihood since then,” she told Zenger News. […]
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