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Visiting the slums around Kisumu
Today we were taken to the slums surrounding Kisumu. Some of the money raised by Comic Relief directly helps dozens of children who live there.
The first thing you notice is the smell: there are no sewers and people use plastic bags before throwing them in trenches they've dug outside their homes. Pigs and goats are nosing around those trenches looking for food. People's homes are mud huts with tin roofs consisting of one room. A family of nine can live in that tiny space.
Litter is everywhere - plastic, paper, tins, the remnants of burning fires - and children have to play in the middle of all that.
Comic Relief cash helps pay for food and education for some of the kids who live here. If that money wasn't forthcoming, you know their lives would be even bleaker.
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