I grew up in one of the world’s most toxic towns – World of Opportunity – Medium

I grew up in one of the world’s most toxic towns

I grew up in #Kabwe, a beautiful place in central Zambia that was once one of the world’s leading mining towns. Now it is better known as one of the most polluted places on Earth because of lead poisoning.

Before I was born, my father and mother moved from a village in the central part of Northern Rhodesia, as Zambia was called back then, to a town called Broken Hill, which became known as Kabwe after independence. Kabwe is right in the middle of Zambia’s Central Province, about 100 miles from the capital Lusaka.

▻https://medium.com/world-of-opportunity/i-grew-up-in-one-of-the-worlds-most-toxic-towns-6c2e8b43dd83
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