Pius Kilonzo

Pius lives with his wife, grandmother and six children in a two roomed house in Kariobangi.
When I get construction work I can get Ks 30 a day. After you do three days you have to stop and let another lot of workers come in. With the construction of some more school classrooms I’m hopeful that there will be more hob opportunities.

When I get paid I buy food in bulk, then we ration the family so it will last when there is no work.
I spend the money on maize, which we have to grind. I cannot buy the packed ground maize meal because its too expensive.

A two kilo pack of maize costs Ks 8, the ground maize is Ks 12. We use it for porridge for breakfast and lunch and the same for supper. We buy vegetables to go with it. There’s no way we can ever eat meat of fish – we have to economise on everything.

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