Kenyan women pay the price for slum water “mafias”
▻http://www.trust.org/item/20141126085900-3p4ar
Water is often the biggest household expense for Kibera’s 200,000 residents. Most earn less than $1.25 (113 Kenyan shillings) a day and spend up to one third of this on water. (...)
“If you are not in the group, it’s very hard to set up a water kiosk. That’s why people think of them as a cartel or a mafia,” she said.
Dependence on the water ’mafia’ falls most heavily on women and girls who, culturally, are the ones whose duty it is to fetch water, as well as cook, clean the house, wash clothes and children and care for the sick.
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