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Spray & Care
What happens when export horticulture feeds a town and the same chemicals leave workers too sick to earn — while relatives stay to care for one another?
The force where greenhouse picking and flower-farm spraying underwrite a highland economy, while former workers and caregivers live with chronic illness, empty medicine packs, and a court petition that has not yet settled responsibility.
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In Timau, Kenya, former greenhouse picker Margaret Mwanjaro cares round-the-clock for her son Reuben Muriki — a former flower-farm sprayer who at 30 cannot walk alone — while for five days she lacked money for his neurological meds; both are among 87 seeking to join a pesticide petition.