Kenyan Women Knit Their Way Back to Dignity After Losing Breasts to Cancer

For many women living with breast cancer in Kenya, this is a silent fight, as they often face the worst forms of stigma.

Nancy Githoitho selects a number of prosthetics that have been knitted by women cancer survivors in Umoja 2 Estate, Nairobi, Kenya, as two volunteers helping with painting her late mother's kiosk look on on Oct. 23, 2018. Dominic Kirui/Special to The Epoch Times

KARIOBANGI, Kenya—On a rainy afternoon in the Kariobangi slums near the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, Caroline Achieng’ tries to keep herself warm in her house made of iron sheets.

The 40-year-old mother of six has breast cancer and says that the chemotherapy she is undergoing has made her weak and prone to cold. She used to sell fish in the slums but can’t do it anymore.