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Learning new skills to keep poverty, dependence at bay

A woman sews a tower garden at Kenya Connect, Machakos County. [Rose Mukonyo, Standard]

Life hit Elizabeth Mwikali so hard after the death of her husband many years ago, and for a while, she wallowed in self-pity and poverty, struggling to earn a living to feed and educate her four sons.

Challenge after challenge hit her, day in and day out, and she ended up with her boys in a rental house in Wamunyu Shopping Centre in Machakos County, where she began doing menial jobs to fend for her family.

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