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The first welcome at Gongo Resource Centre in Gem Sub County, Siaya County, is not from people but from a chorus of barking dogs.
As we drive into the rural homesteads, several dogs move around the compound, alert and watchful. Their presence appears unusual, but the reason becomes clear later. To protect their farms and keep the animals away, residents have turned to dogs, which have become a common sight in many homesteads.
At one of these homes lives 47-year-old Faith Seda, a widow and mother of six children whose own battle is not with wild animals outside her compound, but with a condition affecting the most important organ in her body - her heart.
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