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Kenyan rubbish dump has its own class system

Dandora is Nairobi’s main dumping ground. The 12-hectare land, located in the east of Nairobi, hosts an informal recycling economy which feeds thousands of families.

Elvis Ondieki is a journalist with the Daily Nation who managed to get rare access to visit Dandora as it's controlled by armed gangs. He tells Newsday: “Human society has classes everywhere…even in there.”

(Picture: Two boys sit on nylon sacks at the Dandora Dumping site in Nairobi, Kenya. Credit: James Wakibia/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

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