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Laundromats save the day for you and city’s middle-class

Women are seen handwashing clothes in Nairobi's Kibra Slum. [Courtesy]

The number of ‘Nairobians’ using ‘Mama fua’ services as we call them is slowly diminishing due to the rise of a new laundry solution.

This is a model where you take your week’s laundry to a nearby laundromat and in a couple of hours they are done and sparkling clean at an affordable cost.

A laundromat is a simple...