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Article

15 Jul 2007

Author:
Vitalis Kimutai, East African Standard [Kenya]

Some Families Are Forced to Share Cubicles [Kenya]

Junior workers, especially tea pickers and casual labourers, live in pathetic conditions [on Kenya's South Rift tea estates]. The workers are forced to share cubicles even if they have families. Consequently, they complain of lack of privacy...Titus Korir, the James Finlays [part of Swire Group] corporate affairs director, says the firm provides free housing to the lower cadre of workers...[and] "The houses are also in a fairly good condition"...Unilever Tea corporate affairs director, Mr Francis Kip-Utich Kaptich does not agree with the workers. [also refers to Kaisuku, Lesla, Williamson]