Part 1 Kenya - The series starts in Kaimosi, Western Kenya. Poverty was a key issue in the recent elections in Kenya and the unrest that followed. It is here that Mike meets Isaiah, his disabled wife and six grandchildren, who live on the little they can grow on their small plot of land and the paltry seven to ten dollars a month he makes from growing tea. He has debts to pay to the tea company for the fertilizer he needs, and they can only live a day at a time. The corrugated iron roof on their two roomed tin shack is so full of holes, the rain pours in, and one of their grandchildren recently died from malaria because there's no way they can afford to buy a mosquito net on their hand to mouth existence. By contrast, their neighbors Francis and Christine are both able to work, growing and selling maize, mending bicycles and making bricks. Between them they make about two dollars a day, and own one mosquito net. Francis dreams of one day building another house he can rent out to get more income, and has plans for his future. But he complains that the pressure on the land due to the growing population and poor governance means that things are much harder today than they were twenty years ago. Mike Wooldridge visited Kenya before the recent troubles caused by the disputed presidential election.

Part 1 Kenya - The series starts in Kaimosi, Western Kenya. Poverty was a key issue in the recent elections in Kenya and the unrest that followed. It is here that Mike meets Isaiah, his disabled wife and six grandchildren, who live on the little they can grow on their small plot of land and the paltry seven to ten dollars a month he makes from growing tea. He has debts to pay to the tea company for the fertilizer he needs, and they can only live a day at a time. The corrugated iron roof on their two roomed tin shack is so full of holes, the rain pours in, and one of their grandchildren recently died from malaria because there's no way they can afford to buy a mosquito net on their hand to mouth existence. By contrast, their neighbors Francis and Christine are both able to work, growing and selling maize, mending bicycles and making bricks. Between them they make about two dollars a day, and own one mosquito net. Francis dreams of one day building another house he can rent out to get more income, and has plans for his future. But he complains that the pressure on the land due to the growing population and poor governance means that things are much harder today than they were twenty years ago. Mike Wooldridge visited Kenya before the recent troubles caused by the disputed presidential election.