Letter from Kenya: the servant problem

[h=1]Claire McEvoy
Guardian Weekly, Tuesday 29 November 2011 14.02 GMT
Article history[/h]Brutal truths behind a Rolls-Royce standard of living

What is living in a city where poverty is absolute? Is residing in a tin-roofed shack with no running water and electricity living? Is being forced to defecate in a plastic bag living? Is spending over 50% of your income on food living? Most of the hired help flocks from filthy slums to work in our posh houses.

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Photo : Outside the expat garden walls ... residents in the usual conditions of Nairobi's Mukuru-kwa-Njenga slum. Photograph: Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty Images


and this super-power country of East Africa whicch boast itself to have the largest economy in East Africa and richer than its neighbour countries:

Should people be content with the material basics? A tin roof, dark evenings, shared latrines, "clinics" full of counterfeit drugs and the "free" education that has 60 tattered kids per ramshackle classroom.

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bagamoyo said:

Claire McEvoy
Guardian Weekly, Tuesday 29 November 2011 14.02 GMT
Article history

Brutal truths behind a Rolls-Royce standard of living





Photo : Outside the expat garden walls ... residents in the usual conditions of Nairobi's Mukuru-kwa-Njenga slum. Photograph: Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty Images


and this super-power country of East Africa whicch boast itself to have the largest economy in East Africa and richer than its neighbour countries:



READ THE FULL ARTICLE from source: Letter from Kenya: the servant problem | World news | Guardian Weekly

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Ukiona mwenzako ananyolewa.... ni vema tujifunzae kwa hali hii..