Phyllis Omido's fight for ecology in Kenya

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She managed to have a smelting plant shut down after discovering it was poisoning hundreds of people. Today, Phyllis Omido is a symbol of environment protection in Africa.

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00:00Why did the system fail these people for five years?

00:04Why did they go through all this injustice?

00:07Why did we have to lose so many babies?

00:09It was really really bad. You could not stand the smell. So some of the children were passing out.

00:39We discovered that the longest a woman would carry their pregnancy would be seven months.

01:05If they would carry the baby to term, the baby would die at birth.

02:05When I look at the kids that we started testing, they are all grown up, including my son, who is well now.

02:22I feel that the struggle for the environment today is evolving.

02:26I see an awakening, that the environment is a human right.

02:30An understanding that if you violate it, you violate mankind and our future.

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