Victims of so-called haruwa-charuwa system try to escape debt bondage but it’s not so different on other side as well.
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Environmental and economic pressures push people in Kenya’s fishing communities to seek jobs in energy-rich Gulf states.
![Kenyan fisherman Enos Awele Ajuoga takes his nets out of Lake Victoria’s water every morning. “Most youth, even those unemployed, are not interested in working in the fishing industry, socially it is not looked high at. A graduate working on the lake is perceived as a nobody.” said Ali Juma, a secretary at KENAFA. [Sebastian Castelier/Global News Insight]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/LAKE_VICTORIA_01.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
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