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Brushing your teeth with a twig in Kenya

Tooth brushes? In rural Kenya, most people have never heard of them. Yet their teeth are very white, how is this possible? Our correspondent Carren shows how these villagers continuously brush their teeth with twigs. Because tooth paste... that just stings in your mouth!

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Hygiene

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Carren

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Kenya

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Collage of Carren from Kenya

Correspondent Carren from Kenya works almost two years for Metropolis now. She has made a lot of good but also funny reports since. That's why we put her in the spotlights this week with a collage of her work for Metropolis. Read more...

Collage of Carren from Kenya

March 23, 2012

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Besides her correspondence for our program, she is very active with other programs. She made a web series for Amnesty called Meet the Muthuku's, where the daily life of a family in the slums of Nairobi is shown. A selection of this episodes will be showed at the Young Amnesty Film Days this weekend, part of the Movies That Matter festival in The Hague.