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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Shanti Das and Charlie Moloney

Sent home: how Kenyan’s dream of life as a UK care worker turned sour

Anthony Mbare at home in Juja, north-east of Nairobi, Kenya.
Anthony Mbare at home in Juja, north-east of Nairobi, Kenya. Photograph: Natalia Jidovanu/The Observer

It is a bitter November night and Anthony Mbare is shivering in a car in rural Wiltshire, south-west England, waiting to see his next client.

It’s 3C and he has been here for almost two hours but he cannot turn on the heater because the car battery might die. A petrol-station coffee to warm him up is £3 he cannot afford. He blows on his hands, wriggles his toes and huddles under a blanket.

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