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A day in the life of a worker at Dandora, Nairobi's main dumping ground

A woman carries recycling material from the Dandora dumping site in Kenya's capital Nairobi. © WikimediaCommons CC Biva2017

Kenyan Sharon Atieno, 23, considers herself a busy woman. She believes in the saying 'the early bird catches the worm', and every day she leaves her Nairobi home at the crack of dawn to go to work. She is one of the waste collectors at the expansive Dandora dumping site in Nairobi’s Embakasi North constituency.

She leaves her house neatly dressed like any other office working girl, bag in hand and lipstick to boot. But, her workplace defies the conventional.

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