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Kenya's pollution whistle blower

The Kenyan woman who led a campaign to save her community from deadly pollution

In 2007 Phyllis Omido began working in the offices of a factory in Mombasa which melted down old batteries for use in solar panels. Soon after she started the job, her baby son fell ill. As she desperately tried to find out what was wrong, she stumbled across a pollution problem which was affecting the lives of people who lived near the plant. At great personal cost, she quit her job to take on the company - and the government. Now she's won the prestigious Goldman environmental prize for her campaign.

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