The Green Army was meant to clean up the city — but now, it’s the programme itself that needs scrubbing down.
Caught between poverty and purpose, youth in Nairobi’s Green Army face a tough reality: the initiative that saved them from the streets now risks trapping them in underpaid, unsafe labour with no protection.
When a Nairobi court declined to halt the Green Army programme last week, AK didn’t know how to feel.
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