Place
Kenya · Meru / Mount Kenya slopes
Timau
A highland horticultural town of about 10,000 on the Mount Kenya slopes in Meru County, where decades of export flower and vegetable farms have been an economic lifeline — and where former workers now allege pesticide-related illness.
Illustrative place identifier: snow on the slopes of Mount Kenya (Wikimedia Commons / Gilbertlangat). Used to identify the Timau highland / Mount Kenya northern-slopes region — NOT the Field Note subjects, NOT Mukuri village, not from The Guardian. · Credit: Gilbertlangat / Wikimedia Commons · Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Snow_on_the_Slopes_of_Mt._Kenya.JPG
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The Medications She Cannot Buy
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.