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Welcome to Kenya, one of the world's fastest-growing tourist hotspots.

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In Kenya, you can have it all.

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Beautiful beaches, gorgeous hotels and once-in-a-lifetime safaris.

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It's never been cheaper for young Brits to have their very own African adventure.

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-It's brilliant.

-It's lovely.

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But is there a hidden cost behind our holidays?

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Tonight, Stacey Dooley is going to Kenya

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to expose the side of tourism your average holidaymaker doesn't see.

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So, the water that they've got is limited

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and that limited water is actually dirty?

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-And then coming home to this?

-Yeah!

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Can Stacey find out why hotel staff here are so desperate they've taken to the streets?

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People are dying! These people's friends are no longer here because they haven't been paid!

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Can she help a community whose daily life is being threatened by tourism?

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There's dirt, there's filth. The quality of this water is disgusting.

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On safari, can she get to the bottom of who's really benefiting from our tourist pounds?

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So, the tourists think they've paid this village £40. In reality, all they've received is about £3.

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They must be losing thousands every single year!

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Literally just arrived in Mombasa, so I'm off to the coast.

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All-inclusive. Very sunny.

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Stifling hot. The weather's out of control. It's brilliant.

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I'm really up for it. Very exciting!

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Mombasa is the gateway to hundreds of miles of stunning beaches, which

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are attracting more and more tourists every year.

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This is really popular with all the English.

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All the Brits come here and have their all-inclusive holidays.

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Last year, nearly 200,000 Brits holidayed in Kenya.

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That's more visitors than from any other country.

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You know, you can get these holidays super-cheap, and that includes absolutely everything.

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So I'm just interested to know how that's possible. How are they doing that?

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For the past three years, Stacey's been lifting the lid on shocking stories in the developing world.

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In Cambodia, she met victims of sex trafficking.

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You're constantly having sex with men in the karaoke bar and you're 13?

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And in Africa's Ivory Coast, she exposed child labour in the international cocoa industry.

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I'd much rather them be hanging out in the classrooms than working in the cocoa farms.

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Now Stacey wants to know what's happening in Kenya, one of our favourite holiday destinations.

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But despite a booming tourism industry, Kenya is still

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a poor country, with around half its population living in poverty.

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Just drove past a rubbish dump, and I think they were burning the rubbish

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and the kids were picking through it, cos I think sometimes they try and get bits of plastic and glass.

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It's so weird, because on the plane I've been reading, oh,

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honeymoons, honeymoons, and you see all the plush suites and...

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lots of wedding pictures and the girls look beautiful in their

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dresses, and then you drive past that and it's a real...

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difference, isn't it?

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20 minutes down the road, Stacey arrives at the lively tourist area of Bamburi Beach.

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She's staying at the Travellers Beach Hotel and Club,

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where a week all-inclusive can cost you less than £80 a day.

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-The £80 price tag includes your flight, room, as much as you can eat and drink.

-Woo!

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And even your very own welcome dance.

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Woo!

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Jambo! Hello!

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-Jambo, Stacey. How are you?

-How are you? I'm well, thank you.

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-Welcome.

-Thank you so much.

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-So, what's this bracelet for?

-This is for the all-inclusive.

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You are booked in the all-inclusive site.

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-Uh-huh.

-This will enable you to access for the drinks, meals.

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-Oh, OK.

-It's a full package.

-So a lot of your customers come here and just don't leave?

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-They don't leave the place.

-It might shock you, but I actually...

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I've never been on an all-inclusive, so this is quite a treat for me.

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The hotel has 288 rooms, a fitness club, a spa, six restaurants,

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five bars, two swimming pools, and hundreds of staff on hand

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to look after your every need.

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Woo!

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This...is...beautiful.

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I like Kenya.

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From what I can see so far, it's outstanding value for money.

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It's really cheap, isn't it, you know?

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So, obviously I'm not a "tourist" tourist,

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I'm a pretend tourist, so I'm gonna do everything that the tourists would do.

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# Holiday, oh holiday

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# And the best one of the year. #

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The hotel really does cater for everything.

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Food and drink are available round the clock,

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and there is even a team of people whose job it is to keep guests entertained 24/7.

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OK.

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I think I'm going to shine in this position.

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Woo!

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Not me. Not me.

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It's lunch time, and at the all-inclusive that means an all-you-can-eat buffet.

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I've come to see what's on offer, and there's absolutely loads.

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There's tons and tons and tons of food.

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-Please may I have some of them?

-OK.

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Thank you.

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-You're welcome. Another one?

-Why not?

-Yeah.

-Greedy guts.

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It's fantastic value.

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Pay your lump sum, you can eat like this as much as you want every day while you're here.

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More and more people are choosing to go all-inclusive.

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With money tight, knowing exactly what your holiday will cost before you leave home is a big draw.

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Is it your first time to Kenya?

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-Yeah, it is.

-And how long are you here for?

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-Just a week.

-Just a week?

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-Yeah, it's all-inclusive, so drinks are free.

-We don't need any money.

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The bar's right there. The restaurant's right there.

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What was the price that you paid to come here all-inclusive for a week?

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-I think it was about £600 each.

-Wow!

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For the week all-inclusive.

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They've paid £600 for absolutely everything.

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I spent £400 on the flights!

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How are we able to have these holidays at that kind of price,

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without someone being squeezed or something not being quite right or...?

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Hotel work is highly sought after in Kenya, where unemployment is high and job options limited.

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It's common for those working in the industry to receive the minimum wage,

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around £3 a day, which is considered enough to live on.

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Stacey wants to see if this is what the workers here are paid.

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So she's joined worker Lillian who's taking guests on a beach walk.

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Course. Course.

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Yeah, it's a long old shift. How much Kenyan shillings do you get?

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Actually, I can't tell you that.

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-Is it a secret?

-It's not a secret, but...

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-I know what you mean. You don't have to.

-Yeah.

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But all I want to know really is are you earning enough

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to be able to live comfortably?

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It's not enough, but for me I think it's better than having nothing, you know?

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I unders... Yeah.

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It's true, I suppose it is better than nothing.

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But the thought of how hard she works, and the thought of her

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not being paid reasonably well gets you a bit like that.

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-Woo!

-This is where you are going to have your massage.

-Thank you. No sweat.

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With Lillian reluctant to reveal what she's being paid,

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Stacey's hoping staff will be more frank behind closed doors.

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Oh! This is the life, Florence.

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She's booked a treatment with the hotel's head masseuse, Florence,

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who works up to ten hours a day, six days a week.

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How much do you get a day?

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In a day, maybe it's like 500.

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-500 Kenyan shillings a day?

-Yes.

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That's a basic wage of around £3.60 a day.

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-So, your wages really is, you live month by month?

-Month by month.

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What you earn is what you give out.

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-Right.

-So there is nothing that you can be able to save for yourself.

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Florence, with so many tourists coming here to Mombasa,

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really honestly, is that money making a real difference to Mombasa?

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If I had the powers, I would say no more inclusive.

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-Really? That's interesting.

-Because all-inclusive they pay from England,

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so that means that money doesn't come to us.

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So, the economy that is more improved is from UK, not on our site.

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-The people on the ground are the ones who are suffering.

-Yeah.

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She was really speaking strongly against all-inclusives.

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She was saying, you know, with the all-inclusives what the problem is,

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you pay in England. A lot of the money - most of the money stays in England.

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Come to Kenya, cos you've paid your bulk you think, "Oh, I don't need any money."

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So the locals on the beach aren't seeing any of it, the staff aren't seeing none...

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You know, no-one's being able to

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actually benefit from us tourists spending here.

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-Hello!

-Hello.

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Stacey's arranged a meeting with one of the hotel managers

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to find out where the money we pay on the high street ends up.

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Thank you for seeing me. What is being dished where?

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What amount is going to flights? What amount is going to transfers? What amount is going to staff?

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What amount is going to the run of the hotel?

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Right now, I won't be able to give you the actual nitty-gritty of...

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the two quid that is spent on what.

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It is the food, the pineapples, the apples, mangos.

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I think it's a really big deal for me to ask where this money is being spent,

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because I think most of the tourists would hope that the workers are

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-really being paid a fair wage, you know?

-Yeah.

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They're paid well above our minimum wage.

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Many of them are married have children.

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-They're able to run a home?

-Yes, and take the children to school.

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So, you find the system in the hotel industry in Kenya

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is very, very, very considerate of workers' remuneration

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and they are very, very happy.

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'It didn't add up for me.'

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You know, I was promised that they're all above minimum wage

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and that wage is a great wage, and they're able to live very comfortably off that.

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But I think I'd probably like to have a nose and find out for myself.

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Next day, Stacey's determined to find out more about hotel workers' pay and what it really affords them.

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I've arranged to go and meet a guy, and he's set up his own independent trade union.

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So, you know, he really wants to look after the hotel workers and fight for their rights.

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I wanna go and hang out with him, spend time with him

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and really see what life is like for hotel workers.

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Livingstone Abuta represents workers from many different hotels.

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-Livingstone?

-Ah, over here.

-Hello.

-Welcome.

-I'm Stacey.

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I've been spending time in a hotel on the coast and they assured me

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that every worker in that hotel was being paid above minimum wage.

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We are come to this place so that you can witness

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that the amount that they are being paid

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is too low to enable them to stay in a decent house.

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For example, a waiter is earning 350 shillings per day.

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It's really shocking for me to learn that, you know, these hotel workers are being paid under £3 a day.

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Even in Kenyan standards, you know, that is very, very low

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and of course it's not on. It's totally not on, you know?

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Livingstone has brought Stacey to Kisumu Ndogo,

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which is just ten minutes away from the main hotel strip

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and home to an estimated 2,000 people, most of whom work in tourism.

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This is pretty basic, you know? It smells like a sewer, to be honest.

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Is there an open sewer around, though, cos I smell, like, waste?

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-Is this the equivalent to a shop?

-Yeah.

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-You can see this is some fish.

-God.

-And you see there is some sugar.

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The workers are working in the five-star hotel...

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-And then coming home to this?

-Yeah!

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-Right.

-This is where they get their water.

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If they don't have electricity, there's no water.

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-Right.

-So, most of the time, there is no electricity.

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-So, I mean, water isn't even guaranteed?

-It's not good.

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So they have to spend some money to buy clean water for drinking.

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-So that limited water is actually dirty?

-Exactly.

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-But you can come in and see here.

-Oh, OK!

-Yeah?

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Livingstone takes Stacey inside a local restaurant.

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There's grilled meat on the menu,

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but it's a far cry from what Stacey ate at the hotel buffet.

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Jesus.

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The contrast is massive. It's a huge difference.

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They get pally with the hotel workers. If I was to bring tourists and say,

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"This is where your friends are living," they would be appalled,

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and I think they would probably make it their business

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to make sure that this isn't going on,

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because it's just massively unfair, isn't it? It's just not on.

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Where's their actual home?

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-Where's their house where they sleep?

-Yeah, those are the houses.

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You can see the houses, where they are staying.

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Livingstone wants Stacey to meet workers from other hotels.

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Although it's illegal not to pay staff the minimum wage of roughly £3,

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many of the workers from these other hotels aren't even getting that.

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Livingstone introduces Stacey to one such worker.

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Oh, thank you, Kennedy.

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-It's this way?

-Yeah, this one here.

-Brilliant.

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Kennedy has lived here for three years.

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He shares this one room with his pregnant wife and two children.

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-What is this? Kennedy. That's you!

-Yeah.

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-And this was you at work?

-Yes.

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Kennedy was receiving £1.50 a day.

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That is way, way, way, way below

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what the minimum wage is supposed to be.

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-And that is...

-Your two boys?

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-Are they your two sons?

-Yes. Yes. Uh-huh.

-Wow.

-Yeah.

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Unable to support his family on this wage,

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Kennedy went in search of other work, but is still looking for a job.

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No, of course.

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You're just gutted for them, aren't you, completely gutted, because...

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It's not like they're shy of hard work.

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It's not like they don't want to work, you know?

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We're here to listen to you.

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We don't want you to be ignored, you know?

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At the hotel that I was staying in, you know,

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the people were being paid above minimum wage.

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And so you think that's all fine and you feel happy with that.

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And then you come to somewhere like this and listen to Kennedy

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and you soon realise that that's not the case in every hotel in Mombasa.

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Other hotels are not only just not paying them minimum wage,

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they're paying them way below minimum wage.

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That's happening in hotels in Mombasa.

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Hello!

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Workers like Kennedy are unable to survive on their wages,

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but those who decide to ask for more money sometimes face extreme consequences.

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-Is it Henry?

-Yes, I'm Henry.

-Yeah? Ha-ha! Henry, I'm Stacey.

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-How are you? Welcome, Stacey.

-Thank you. Lovely to meet you.

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-You are very welcome, please.

-Hello!

-Hello!

-I'm Stacey.

-I'm Apke!

-Apke?

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-Yes, and I'm Henry's wife.

-Lovely to meet you. Ah!

-Welcome.

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-You're very pretty.

-Yeah.

-Yes.

-You're a lucky man.

-Yes.

-Thank you.

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-Welcome, welcome. Yes.

-Thank you.

-You are welcome.

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-Have a seat, please.

-Oh, look at this chair, look.

-Yes.

-Very dapper.

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We joined the union so that we can...

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the union can defend us, yes,

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so that they increase our salary every year.

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But the management, they don't like this.

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If they found you are with the union, they sack you.

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Is this happening to many families like you?

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Yes, it's happening to many families. Yes.

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-And when you came home, you had to tell Apke.

-Yes.

-"I've been sacked."

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-And how did you feel? Were you worried or?

-I felt sad.

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-Yes, she...

-Yes, I was shocked.

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-I, I, I, I don't want talk about it.

-No.

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Sometimes your boy isn't able to have tea before he goes to school?

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-Yes, because the money we had cannot afford.

-I understand.

-Yes. Yes.

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Henry fears his family will lose the roof over their heads.

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Do you owe the landlord money?

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It's always good for me to listen to these kind of things,

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because you can get so...

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..worried about nonsense at home, can't you?

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And you just think, "Sheesh, we're just so incredibly lucky."

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You know, we have so many rights in England and...

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It's really tricky. It's difficult.

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Really gets on my nerves, because I listen to nonsense from management,

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"Ah, this, that, this, that," just, just nonsense.

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And they know, they know, they know that people aren't living comfortably.

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They know that this isn't...

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This isn't ideal for families. They know that.

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I think, "Why aren't you sticking up for your people?"

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Next morning, Stacey has had an unexpected call from Livingstone.

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Right now, I am on my way to go and witness a protest.

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There's some workers at a particular hotel that really have just had enough.

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And they're all there, they're going to be together protesting.

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I really want to go, I really want to see what the vibe's like,

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I want to see what these guys have got to say.

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You never know, do you?

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I mean, I might get there and it might all kick-off, it might be very calm.

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I've not been to a protest in Kenya, so fingers crossed.

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Workers from the Dolphin Hotel claim they've been having problems with pay since 2004.

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Part of the African Safari Club chain,

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it's a popular destination for British tourists.

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-Livingstone!

-Hi!

-How are you?

-Fine, thank you.

-Nice to see you.

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-Thank you very much.

-Thank you for letting me know about today. It's very interesting.

-Yes, please.

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These are the workers who are working in the hotel.

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We worked for one year and three months without payment.

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Now, when we go to demand for our payment, we are sacked.

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That's disgusting. That's completely wrong.

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Now I'm desperate. My children are not going to school.

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Even I sleep in the church because I cannot afford to pay the rent for the house.

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Not only have people lost their homes,

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it seems some have lost their lives.

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In 2008, six people died. 2009, four people died.

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2010, last year, there are more than six people who dead.

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As you have to pay for medicine in Kenya, workers claim that friends have died of treatable illnesses

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because they've lacked the money to buy drugs.

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People are dying!

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Their friends are no longer here because they haven't been paid!

0:20:520:20:55

If you're sacked, you're not entitled to any of the back pay

0:20:550:20:59

or any of the money that you earned.

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So they're using that as an excuse.

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"We sacked you, so we don't have to pay you!"

0:21:030:21:05

This is the outside of the hotel that the guys want to protest to.

0:21:150:21:19

It'll be interesting to see if they even let them in.

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As the protestors try to march onto the hotel grounds,

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the head security officer stops them going any further.

0:21:260:21:30

Do you understand why they want their money that they say they've been owed?

0:21:310:21:36

You're not willing to even talk to me?

0:21:360:21:40

Absolutely no response. You know, I...

0:21:440:21:46

I don't understand why people are sticking up for the management

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and the hotel if it's true that even the workers aren't being paid.

0:21:520:21:57

I don't understand!

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This is a man, this is an African.

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He is being used by the hooliganism here.

0:22:020:22:05

-You are very stupid.

-Me?

0:22:050:22:06

-You don't see these workers are demanding for their rights?

-Thank you very much.

0:22:060:22:10

And you're forcing it. You are not ashamed!

0:22:100:22:13

Getting nowhere with the staff,

0:22:130:22:15

Stacey wants to know what the hotel guests think.

0:22:150:22:19

If we stop coming the rest of the people won't get any money.

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I'd probably stay in a hotel where I was confident

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that the people were being paid. But how can you know?

0:22:260:22:29

-You don't know when you book, do you?

-I understand.

0:22:290:22:32

-If you see the management, maybe say how important it is for you.

-Absolutely. We'll do our best.

0:22:320:22:37

-It's not fair. In England they'd have been chucked in jail!

-That's what I'm saying!

0:22:370:22:42

-For us it's crazy to think...

-Absolutely.

0:22:420:22:45

-Some of the guys say they haven't been paid in over a year.

-Absolutely.

0:22:450:22:48

The police have just arrived,

0:22:500:22:51

so obviously these guys on the other side have called the police.

0:22:510:22:56

Hello. Hello. Excuse me.

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So, you will keep on filming us or you want us to resolve this problem?

0:23:030:23:08

The security guard's got the hump, he's shouting and moaning, la la la.

0:23:110:23:15

We've been told to turn the camera off, else nothing's going to be resolved.

0:23:150:23:20

But I don't think there's any danger of it ever being resolved from what I'm hearing.

0:23:200:23:24

Do you think there is any way that I would be able to, me, just me,

0:23:240:23:29

none of the workers, could come and speak to management?

0:23:290:23:32

-Let me call him.

-Yeah. Shall I come with you?

0:23:320:23:35

-Come with me.

-Yeah, OK! Brilliant. Thank you.

0:23:350:23:39

After a frustrating morning, it looks like Stacey's presence is making a difference.

0:23:390:23:43

The hotel's HR manager comes to address the protestors.

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All other days when the workers came to the management for their rights, he was not coming out.

0:23:470:23:53

-Really?

-Yeah.

-Is this the first time?

-This is the first time he's coming. Thank you.

0:23:530:23:58

So, I've just been sent again to confirm the same information

0:23:580:24:03

that was relayed to you, that the salary will be paid on the 18th,

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so that this issue can be sorted out.

0:24:090:24:11

You see, I'm not qualified to answer any question.

0:24:190:24:22

I was just called to relay a message, clarify, that's all.

0:24:220:24:26

I was just wondering if you know, are they going to be paid all the money they're owed?

0:24:260:24:30

Do you believe that you're going to get paid everything you're due on the day they say?

0:24:320:24:37

No, no, no. We don't believe anything.

0:24:370:24:39

Hello. I wonder if you can help me. My name is Stacey.

0:24:440:24:48

Still not convinced the workers will get all the money they're owed,

0:24:480:24:52

Stacey tries one last time to get a concrete guarantee from the hotel.

0:24:520:24:56

They're not having any of it.

0:24:560:24:58

I'm just going to keep ringing, I'll keep ringing over the next few days,

0:24:580:25:03

I'll keep speaking to Livingstone, see if he's got any feedback,

0:25:030:25:06

if his workers know anything else.

0:25:060:25:08

Hopefully, Friday they do get paid, but I don't think anyone's holding their breath.

0:25:080:25:13

Yeah, that's probably where we are with that.

0:25:140:25:19

What else can we physically do?

0:25:190:25:21

Unhappy with the outcome at this hotel,

0:25:230:25:26

Stacey is determined to speak to someone in power about the plight of all hotel workers.

0:25:260:25:31

I've arranged to meet the Minister for Tourism, so it's a big deal.

0:25:320:25:36

Minister Balala. I really just want to speak to him,

0:25:360:25:40

tell him what I've seen, what I've witnessed,

0:25:400:25:42

and see what he's got to say.

0:25:420:25:44

Jambo!

0:25:440:25:45

-Jambo. How are you?

-Minister Balala?

-Yes, very good.

0:25:460:25:49

-Pleasure to meet you. My name's Stacey.

-Nice to meet you.

0:25:490:25:52

I've been hanging out with the hotel workers.

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And I've learnt that there is a minimum wage

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and a lot of them are telling me that they can't live a basic standard of life on this wage.

0:25:590:26:04

Anywhere in the world minimum wage is just to get a livelihood.

0:26:050:26:10

No, I accept that.

0:26:100:26:11

I understand you can't be paid lots of money if you haven't got a particular talent or flair.

0:26:110:26:16

However, I went to some of these workers' homes

0:26:160:26:21

and there's no clean water available.

0:26:210:26:23

They're living in squalor, there's sewer running through settlements.

0:26:230:26:28

The living conditions for some hotel workers are diabolical.

0:26:280:26:31

We have problems. We know we have to resolve them.

0:26:310:26:35

We cannot resolve everything overnight, but we're determined to do something about it.

0:26:350:26:39

The stories are all very similar. People aren't even being paid minimum wage,

0:26:390:26:44

they're being paid below minimum wage.

0:26:440:26:46

-Tell them to ask their union.

-Well, this is it!

0:26:460:26:49

Well, they're going to the unions because they know this isn't on.

0:26:490:26:54

They know their rights so they think, "I'm going to join a union and stand up for myself."

0:26:540:26:59

If they join the union the hotel gets the hump and says,

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"Your services are no longer required."

0:27:020:27:05

I haven't had any reports for that matter,

0:27:050:27:07

that people are removed from their jobs because they've joined unions.

0:27:070:27:11

If those reports are there I'll be more than glad to do it.

0:27:110:27:15

-How's the product?

-The hotels?

-Yes.

-Oh, fantastic!

0:27:150:27:19

You can't knock the hotel!

0:27:190:27:21

You can't knock the service you receive in the hotel.

0:27:210:27:23

But I think that we have to make sure these workers

0:27:230:27:27

are living a basic standard of living.

0:27:270:27:30

-At least I think they have a very good advocacy.

-Well, it's not that!

0:27:300:27:34

I don't want to sound like I'm banging on,

0:27:340:27:37

but I just have to tell you, you know?

0:27:370:27:38

You're a good man, you do care about these things, and I think things have to change.

0:27:380:27:43

You have to take into account that he is a minister

0:27:440:27:48

and he has got to say certain things and certain spiel.

0:27:480:27:51

He said that he's taken everything I've said into account

0:27:510:27:54

and he's going to work hard to make things better.

0:27:540:27:58

Maybe it might seem that I'm being a bit naive

0:27:580:28:00

and a bit hopeful, but you get a feel for people,

0:28:000:28:05

and I think he's quite a good guy.

0:28:050:28:07

But the plight of hotel workers isn't the only issue on the coast.

0:28:100:28:14

With more and more hotels and resorts being built, many other Kenyans are suffering too.

0:28:160:28:21

I've been told about a local village that's having real issues

0:28:210:28:24

with being able to access water.

0:28:240:28:26

So I'm just on my way there now.

0:28:260:28:28

I'm going to go spend some time in the village.

0:28:280:28:30

Just 20 minutes from the coast is Chaudhari, a typical rural village.

0:28:300:28:35

Jambo!

0:28:350:28:38

Families have lived here for centuries,

0:28:380:28:40

farming and collecting their water from a local spring.

0:28:400:28:44

But, as is common in Africa,

0:28:440:28:46

they have never had legal rights to the land.

0:28:460:28:49

A few years ago, businessmen built a golf development for tourists.

0:28:500:28:55

A perimeter wall was constructed and, as a result,

0:28:570:29:00

the villagers lost direct access to their main source of fresh water.

0:29:000:29:03

In Africa it's always the woman's role to fetch the water,

0:29:030:29:06

so I'd like to speak to some women and see what they've got to say about the whole thing.

0:29:060:29:10

Government water supply is unreliable and must be paid for,

0:29:100:29:14

which means these villagers now rely heavily on a small spring ten minutes' walk from the village.

0:29:140:29:21

Hello! Oh, my goodness. Are you all right?

0:29:210:29:27

-Jambo. Jambo!

-Jambo.

-Hello.

0:29:270:29:31

My goodness.

0:29:310:29:33

You can't see through the water here. It's...blacky-brown.

0:29:580:30:02

There's, like, leaves and dirt.

0:30:020:30:04

You can't imagine the villagers having to drink this water.

0:30:040:30:08

Makembe shows Stacey how they try to avoid the dirtiest water.

0:30:080:30:12

From here? The water doesn't look great,

0:30:140:30:16

and, I mean, it smells a little bit as well.

0:30:160:30:19

Yeah. Mmm-hmm.

0:30:230:30:26

The quality of this water is disgusting.

0:30:340:30:36

The kids are here playing, they get thirsty - this is the water that they're given. There's...

0:30:360:30:41

there's nothing she can do, she's saying, though.

0:30:410:30:44

They can't treat it, so they rely on God to...

0:30:440:30:48

to make it OK for them.

0:30:480:30:51

The water hole is half a mile from the village down a steep hill.

0:30:510:30:54

The women have to make this journey up to six times a day.

0:30:540:30:58

ALL CHUCKLE

0:30:580:31:01

Well, I've been started on the baby size.

0:31:010:31:05

I'm sure a five-year-old kid probably runs up the hill with this size bucket, but...

0:31:050:31:09

I'm going to have a try.

0:31:110:31:12

Oh, no, the hill!

0:31:140:31:16

Crikey.

0:31:200:31:22

Thank you.

0:31:220:31:23

My friends have got my back.

0:31:230:31:26

I don't want to play fetching water ever again.

0:31:260:31:29

I do super-hate doing stuff like this,

0:31:290:31:31

but it's so good, because you do really get...

0:31:310:31:34

..a feel of what these ladies do every day, you know?

0:31:350:31:38

And it's not easy, man. It's hard. Ooh. Climbing up...

0:31:380:31:42

..massive steep hills in the burning sun to get this water

0:31:440:31:47

and the water's not even clean.

0:31:470:31:49

The water's brown.

0:31:490:31:51

This is my exercise done for 2011.

0:31:530:31:55

Oh!

0:31:590:32:00

Whoo!

0:32:000:32:03

Are you all right? Ah, we need a sleep.

0:32:090:32:13

Local charity worker Patrick Ochieng has agreed to show Stacey the wall.

0:32:140:32:18

-How are you, Patrick?

-I'm good, and you?

-Lovely to meet you.

-Welcome.

0:32:180:32:22

There's a massive great big whopping wall. What is this wall for?

0:32:220:32:26

Behind this wall, there's a water source that the community

0:32:260:32:30

has been using for many years.

0:32:300:32:32

Right now with this wall, many members of the communities

0:32:320:32:35

-cannot access that water point.

-Course. Mmm.

0:32:350:32:37

-It may be 25, 30 kilometres.

-Kilometres?

0:32:370:32:42

Yeah. All concrete.

0:32:420:32:45

-And it's so high as well. Like ten foot?

-It is very, very high.

-12 foot?

0:32:450:32:49

So you can imagine villagers have to walk around this wall every day.

0:32:490:32:54

God, you'd hate the bloomin' wall, wouldn't you?

0:32:540:32:56

-You know the footballer Peter Crouch from England?

-I know Crouch.

0:32:560:33:00

-I don't even think he could have a peek over this wall.

-It's probably taller than him!

0:33:000:33:05

Villages like this one on this side of the development

0:33:050:33:09

have been worst affected.

0:33:090:33:11

If the villagers want to get to the spring,

0:33:110:33:13

they now have to walk around the wall, which means a two-hour round trip.

0:33:130:33:17

With walls like this, your options keep on narrowing, you know,

0:33:190:33:23

given that you are already living in a region where water is a problem.

0:33:230:33:27

What this does is it increases the amount of problems

0:33:270:33:31

that people in this place have.

0:33:310:33:33

When it becomes dry, there's water on that side

0:33:330:33:36

and there's hardly any on this side, so you still find a lot of locals, you know,

0:33:360:33:40

crossing over underneath to find some water.

0:33:400:33:44

I'll show you this.

0:33:460:33:47

Oh, I see.

0:33:470:33:49

So basically these are trenches for water to flow through.

0:33:490:33:53

Sometimes you find desperate community members

0:33:530:33:56

crossing to fetch the little that is left on the other side.

0:33:560:33:59

-What would happen to them if they got caught?

-Of course, if you got caught, you'd be trespassing

0:33:590:34:04

and this country has very clear trespass legislation.

0:34:040:34:07

-So you run the risk of going to jail getting some water?

-The risk of... Yeah.

0:34:070:34:11

It's really tempting for me to just squiddle over there and just have a little nose.

0:34:110:34:16

You can imagine if you're on this side

0:34:160:34:18

and you know there's loads of water a couple of metres away, it's very tempting, but...

0:34:180:34:22

I don't think there's any policemen right now

0:34:220:34:25

-who are going to arrest you for trespass.

-Patrick, are you trying to get me nicked?

0:34:250:34:29

-Well, I hope not. But if they do...

-No.

0:34:290:34:31

I mean, just to get a sense of what these people are doing.

0:34:310:34:35

So they're literally just going through here?

0:34:350:34:38

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

0:34:380:34:40

-You can do it!

-HE CHUCKLES

0:34:400:34:42

I don't need you egging me on, Pat! You're meant to be my mate!

0:34:420:34:45

God, I'm so tempted to go over, but I don't think it's a good idea.

0:34:450:34:50

-Let's go back, Pat. Retreat.

-What? Keep going.

-No, Pat!

0:34:500:34:55

-Keep going.

-I'm retreating. HE LAUGHS

0:34:550:34:57

I'm not getting nicked in Kenya. Me mum will go loopy.

0:34:570:35:02

-Just come down slow.

-That's insane, though, isn't it?

0:35:020:35:05

-Pat, someone's just gone in now.

-Yeah.

0:35:070:35:10

Of course, people do this all the time.

0:35:100:35:14

-Hello! Are you all right?

-People do this all the time.

0:35:140:35:18

-Are you all right?

-Yes, I'm all right.

0:35:180:35:21

-Oh, good.

-Yeah.

-My name is Stacey.

0:35:210:35:24

-Your name is Stacey.

-Your name?

-My name is Duken.

0:35:240:35:27

Is there loads of water on the other side?

0:35:270:35:31

The whole of that area is filled with water.

0:35:310:35:34

Do you and the local villagers sometimes have to go through to get water?

0:35:340:35:38

-Er...

-You can say. I won't say.

0:35:380:35:41

-Do you sometimes?

-Yeah, sometimes, yeah.

-I don't blame you!

0:35:410:35:45

When the wall went up, the golf course did provide

0:35:450:35:48

this village with an alternative source of water.

0:35:480:35:51

-What is this?

-This is water tank.

0:35:510:35:54

-I mean, does it work? Does...?

-No, it doesn't work. There's no water. There's no water at all.

0:35:540:36:00

So the villagers now don't drink water from the tank.

0:36:000:36:03

-Well, there's not even one tiny drip. It's as dry as a bone!

-Mmm, no, it's totally dry.

0:36:030:36:08

It really hammers home, in this heat when you're stood in the middle of Africa sweating,

0:36:080:36:13

there's kids that have got no water! There's no water, you know?

0:36:130:36:17

It used to be the case they could just go and walk for 20 minutes

0:36:170:36:20

and get it and now there's not that option. It's not there. There's no water.

0:36:200:36:24

I'm dying, dying, dying to go on to the other side of that wall.

0:36:240:36:29

I'd love to go to the golf development and see what the craic is.

0:36:290:36:33

Next morning, Stacey's wish is granted.

0:36:330:36:36

The man in charge of the golf development has agreed to a meeting.

0:36:360:36:39

I'm actually really looking forward to going to the other side.

0:36:390:36:43

Spending time with the villagers, you hear about the other side, the other side of the wall.

0:36:430:36:48

It's like...Narnia!

0:36:480:36:50

I really, really just want to get there and see what it's like!

0:36:500:36:53

Hello!

0:36:530:36:56

I'm here to see...management.

0:36:560:36:59

When the development is completed,

0:36:590:37:01

there will be another golf course,

0:37:010:37:04

more luxury villas and a five-star hotel here.

0:37:040:37:07

They're like super-fancy houses.

0:37:070:37:09

Doesn't look like their swimming pools are going to dry out any time soon, no.

0:37:090:37:13

It's very green, very lush.

0:37:130:37:15

It's just mad, isn't it? To think that not far away from here

0:37:150:37:19

are people running up and down silly hills to get dirty water.

0:37:190:37:24

It's crazy.

0:37:240:37:25

Oh, my God, look, there's water here. Loads.

0:37:250:37:29

Just to make the place look pretty.

0:37:290:37:31

That must be the water, the spring.

0:37:350:37:37

My God. It's absolutely ginormous.

0:37:390:37:42

It's huge. Please may we stop a second?

0:37:420:37:44

Is that possible?

0:37:440:37:47

I just want to have a look at this.

0:37:470:37:49

That's like a massive lake.

0:37:490:37:51

That's like, that's like you could put a boat across there!

0:37:510:37:53

Just shockingly different, isn't it? It's just absolutely perfect.

0:38:010:38:04

It seems ideal for the villagers, you know?

0:38:040:38:08

And remembering the spring that they've got now, it's pathetic.

0:38:080:38:12

Like it's, it's like a puddle in comparison to this.

0:38:120:38:15

Just looking at it, it's purer, you can see through the water...

0:38:150:38:20

It's a million times better.

0:38:200:38:22

Stacey's meeting the golf course's chief executive, Robert Ward.

0:38:220:38:28

I'm here to see the big boss, the main man.

0:38:280:38:31

You know I really want to speak to him about this development,

0:38:310:38:34

the issues it's causing the villagers,

0:38:340:38:36

and ideally I'd like him to say, no, I completely get you, I'm with you,

0:38:360:38:41

and maybe commit to helping the village I saw.

0:38:410:38:44

-Hello, you must be Robert...

-Hi there.

-Pleasure to meet you.

0:38:460:38:49

-Welcome to Vipingo Ridge.

-Thank you so much.

0:38:490:38:51

You've got a massive, massive amount of land here. It's huge.

0:38:510:38:55

Like, I can't even see end to end.

0:38:550:38:57

How many people are you employing?

0:38:570:38:59

We directly employ 310 people.

0:38:590:39:02

The area that we've chosen to do this development,

0:39:020:39:04

it was really a very undeveloped area, so now they've got

0:39:040:39:07

somewhere on their doorsteps where they can find work.

0:39:070:39:10

I spent some time with the local community just on the other side of the wall.

0:39:100:39:14

They used to use like a spring, a big water spring.

0:39:140:39:18

Now, that really was their source.

0:39:180:39:20

And now the wall has been built, they're not able to get to that water.

0:39:200:39:25

-Mmm.

-Were you aware of that?

0:39:250:39:27

If we deny them something, we've always tried to put something in place to replace it,

0:39:270:39:31

which is why we've put in a pump system to pump that water up to them in their villages.

0:39:310:39:35

So, in fact, they no longer have to walk down the hill to get the water, we now pump the water up to them.

0:39:350:39:40

But actually the locals brought me to the pump - and it's not working.

0:39:400:39:44

I wasn't aware - and we will certainly look into it.

0:39:440:39:49

I mean, the... You know, there's a lot more that we will be doing in the future with the local community.

0:39:490:39:54

Of course, yeah.

0:39:540:39:56

So, it's really just a start.

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But the, er...

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-I was not aware that it didn't...

-Yeah.

-..didn't work.

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-With any new development, there is difficulties for people.

-Of course.

0:40:030:40:08

-Yeah.

-As the project grows, it won't be 310 people working here, it will be thousands of people working here.

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And therefore, I think that there's really no question in anybody's mind that the long-term

0:40:140:40:21

benefits to the local community will far outweigh any of the difficulties that they're currently facing.

0:40:210:40:28

Now you know, Robert, that the tank and the tap that you have

0:40:280:40:32

given the village isn't working, is that something that you can promise you'll look into and you'll fix?

0:40:320:40:37

You can tell them that we will find a solution as quickly as we possibly can.

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And if that means sending some water to fill the tank immediately, we can do that very quickly, yeah.

0:40:420:40:47

Great. Brilliant. I think that's...

0:40:470:40:49

I think they'll be made up to hear that.

0:40:490:40:51

Jambo!

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Hello! Oh, hello, everyone!

0:40:550:40:59

Word has got round that Stacey's had a meeting at the golf course.

0:40:590:41:04

Nice to see you again!

0:41:040:41:06

Hi! Hi!

0:41:060:41:08

-All right?

-Hiya. Hi. Jambo.

0:41:080:41:10

Ah! Today... Yeah? ..I went to the other side of the wall.

0:41:100:41:14

So I went to go and visit the development, the golf development.

0:41:140:41:17

-Yeah.

-And I met the CEO - so I met the big, big guy.

0:41:170:41:21

-Yeah.

-So, he's going to make sure that the tank they donated you...

0:41:210:41:25

-Yeah, provides water?

-Provides water constant. Constantly.

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So he's going to mend that for you and make sure that there's constant water for you and all the villagers.

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That's what we want, because we don't want empty, empty promises.

0:41:340:41:38

No, I wouldn't fill you with, like, false hope.

0:41:380:41:41

-OK, thank you.

-I genuinely believe... he is going to sort it for you.

0:41:410:41:44

OK. God bless you.

0:41:440:41:46

I do honestly think. OK, thank you.

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And we'll keep in touch and if he doesn't, then we can say.

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But I'm almost positive he will.

0:41:520:41:53

The day after Stacey's visit, the staff from the golf course

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came and fixed the tap, providing the villagers with fresh water.

0:41:580:42:03

It's time for Stacey to leave the coast and embark on the final leg of her journey.

0:42:030:42:08

The other big deal in Kenya is safaris, so I'm off to the Masai Mara to learn what's going on there.

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The Masai Mara is a large game reserve and one of the best places in the world to see wild animals.

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In Kenya, safari is big business.

0:42:330:42:36

Hundreds of thousands of tourists arrive here every year for the trip of a lifetime.

0:42:360:42:42

So, here I am on a hot air balloon safari in the Masai Mara.

0:42:480:42:52

Super-popular destination.

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You can see the animals from here, the scenery's beautiful.

0:42:540:42:58

It's one of the most amazing things I've ever done.

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I can totally see why this is so popular with the tourists.

0:43:010:43:05

Visitors don't just come here to see the animals - for many, a big draw is

0:43:060:43:10

visiting local tribes in their traditional homes.

0:43:100:43:15

It is amazing, but I'm not here to frolic around in a hot air balloon, as much as I'd love to.

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I'm here to see the impact tourism is having on the local communities.

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Stacey is on her way to a Masai village called Ololume.

0:43:290:43:33

Oh, my God, look at the zebras!

0:43:330:43:36

Amazing! Very Kivali.

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For generations, the tribe have survived by raising cattle on the Masai Mara.

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But the growth of the safari business means they've lost access

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to land, and with it much of their traditional livelihood.

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As a result, the Masai have become heavily reliant on tourism.

0:43:520:43:56

Oh, my God!

0:43:590:44:01

THEY SING Thank you!

0:44:010:44:03

Hello!

0:44:060:44:09

Hello! Oh!

0:44:090:44:11

Oh! Here we go!

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Each year, tens of thousands of visitors pay for day trips to

0:44:150:44:18

villages like this to see the Masai re-enact traditional ceremonies.

0:44:180:44:23

This is a long dance!

0:44:230:44:26

I feel like a cheerleader!

0:44:260:44:29

God! This is the weirdest day of my life!

0:44:320:44:36

The village gives Stacey the full Masai experience.

0:44:360:44:40

There's lots going on. It's good to try a new look every now and then.

0:44:400:44:46

You don't want to get stale.

0:44:460:44:48

-I don't know if the cape is a bit much.

-You're Masai now.

0:44:480:44:52

-Well, listen, I don't think I'm not Masai now.

-You're Masai now.

0:44:520:44:55

Very much so.

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Apart from the fee that tourists pay for the visit, the villagers' only other means

0:44:560:45:01

of making money from tourism is by selling handmade souvenirs.

0:45:010:45:05

Ah! That's my favourite.

0:45:050:45:07

How many tourists do you get a day, Eunice?

0:45:120:45:14

Per week we get maybe two cars.

0:45:140:45:18

-Two cars.

-Really?

-Yes. Per week.

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And how does that affect you girls if you're not selling things every day?

0:45:210:45:25

Stacey wants to see how village chief Olay Kapira feels about tourism.

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Nowadays it seems like tourism is a real part of your life.

0:45:430:45:49

How do you feel about tourism?

0:45:490:45:50

I'm just starting to find out there's a real issue at the minute.

0:46:040:46:06

Drivers are dropping tourists here and the tourists are paying the Masai people

0:46:060:46:12

directly to come into their homes, but then the Masai people are having to go to the driver

0:46:120:46:17

that's dropped the tourists here and give a lot of the money back!

0:46:170:46:20

While Stacey is talking to the chief, a driver from one of the lodges

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is spotted heading towards the village with a group of tourists.

0:46:260:46:29

This is Stacey's chance to see if the drivers really are taking money that

0:46:310:46:36

should be going to the Masai, so she needs to be discreet.

0:46:360:46:39

I've got to look like a tourist and I've got to act just completely like I'm here on my holidays.

0:46:390:46:44

We've got to hide the camera so that the driver doesn't become...

0:46:440:46:48

the driver doesn't become suspicious so I can see

0:46:480:46:51

what's going on. Thank you!

0:46:510:46:53

Oh, goodness me! Thanks, guys.

0:46:530:46:56

So, we've got a little camera and I'm going to see if we can

0:46:560:46:59

just get to see the driver being handed over the money.

0:46:590:47:03

The middleman is miked up, so hopefully we'll be able to get some kind of idea what's going on.

0:47:030:47:08

The tourists are coming. Come on, Chase.

0:47:110:47:14

-Today, the driver has brought a family of four to the village.

-So you're enjoying yourself today?

0:47:140:47:18

Yes, very much so. I mean, who wouldn't when you have these sort of surroundings around you?

0:47:180:47:24

Are you happy to pay to come to see this kind of thing?

0:47:240:47:27

-Yeah, I don't mind that at all. I think that's fair, you know?

-Yeah.

0:47:270:47:29

And this goes to them, so it's not middleman and all that sort of thing, so I think it's OK.

0:47:290:47:34

It's important for you that the money goes directly to the Masai people?

0:47:340:47:37

Yes. Absolutely. I think you should have more of that within tourism.

0:47:370:47:40

So, the tourists have come in to see the Masai village

0:47:460:47:50

and I think they've given the money over to one of the local guys, one of the Masai men.

0:47:500:47:55

The driver's coming.

0:48:020:48:04

The Masai man goes to negotiate with the driver.

0:48:060:48:09

The guy that's got to give the driver the money is going to the driver.

0:48:090:48:12

The driver and the Masai man go behind the jeep and out of range of our microphones.

0:48:180:48:24

I feel like Inspector bloody Clouseau!

0:48:240:48:26

I saw, I followed, I tried to be really discreet, and I saw the guy with the driver.

0:48:260:48:32

The guy and the driver walked up to the car, walked

0:48:320:48:34

behind the car, so it wasn't even the side of the car that's on view.

0:48:340:48:37

I was trying to act like a tree!

0:48:370:48:40

Act like a tree, think like a tree.

0:48:400:48:45

I can't believe it.

0:48:450:48:47

The Masai man is coming back, so I just want to see how much he's left with.

0:48:500:48:53

How are you?

0:48:530:48:55

-Fine.

-Are you OK?

-Yes.

-So...

0:48:550:48:58

This is what you're left with?

0:48:580:49:00

-300 Kenyan shillings.

-Yeah.

0:49:030:49:05

When the tourists paid 4,000.

0:49:050:49:09

So, the tourists think they've paid this village £40 or thereabouts,

0:49:090:49:13

when in reality all they've received is about £3.

0:49:130:49:17

How would the driver react if one day you said, no, it's not fair, I'm not giving you most of the money?

0:49:170:49:24

What would the driver do?

0:49:240:49:25

So he's blackmailing them. You either do what I say

0:49:360:49:39

or you don't get any tourists at all and you make no money whatsoever.

0:49:390:49:43

The tourists genuinely have absolutely no idea what's just gone on.

0:49:430:49:47

Not a clue. And I would never know if I was just here not specifically looking for it, you know?

0:49:470:49:52

The 4,000 Kenyan shillings that you've handed over, 3,700 of that is sat in the driver's pocket.

0:49:520:49:58

These guys have got 300 Kenyan shillings.

0:49:580:50:01

Ugh. It's just so devious.

0:50:010:50:06

They're missing out on thousands of pounds.

0:50:060:50:10

If you think of it over the year, they could be making so much money

0:50:100:50:12

from the tourists visiting, and they're not.

0:50:120:50:14

And it's not like they couldn't do with the extra money here!

0:50:140:50:18

-OK, thank you.

-Thank you very much.

0:50:180:50:20

When I had a nose at that driver I was keen to see if he was being employed by anyone.

0:50:200:50:25

So I wanted to look if he had a uniform on - and he totally did.

0:50:250:50:28

And I made a note of the name of the safari lodge.

0:50:280:50:31

You know I would, I'd like to go to the lodge and just see if they're aware, you know?

0:50:310:50:35

Do they know that drivers are carrying on like this?

0:50:350:50:36

Do they know that there's even an issue?

0:50:360:50:38

Stacey wastes no time in finding the lodge.

0:50:400:50:44

Aw! Thank you!

0:50:480:50:51

See you in a bit! Ah!

0:50:510:50:55

Okey-dokey, I'm on my way to go and speak to the lodge.

0:50:560:51:00

Wish me luck. Fingers crossed it goes well.

0:51:000:51:04

The lodge owners refuse to speak to Stacey on camera.

0:51:120:51:16

Ah!

0:51:160:51:19

They said, look, if we had 100% proof

0:51:190:51:22

that the driver was taking money that he shouldn't be taking, then we would, we'd sack him on the spot.

0:51:220:51:27

You know, we wouldn't put up with that, we'd take him to the police station. That is what we would do.

0:51:270:51:31

I explained the situation. You know, ideally the lodge guys

0:51:310:51:35

would have said to me, oh, we're totally with you.

0:51:350:51:37

We totally don't want any of this carry-on, right, we're going to do this, this, this.

0:51:370:51:41

That would have been ideal, but it doesn't always happen like that.

0:51:410:51:45

You have to be realistic.

0:51:450:51:46

There are things going on that I do think need to change,

0:51:460:51:51

but that doesn't mean they're going to happen!

0:51:510:51:53

Other local villages do well out of tourism, so Stacey's determined to find another way to help Ololume.

0:51:570:52:04

They also make money by selling their handmade jewellery.

0:52:040:52:08

But they are reliant on tourists coming to them, and as these items are mass produced and sold

0:52:080:52:13

all over Kenya, visitors have often already bought souvenirs elsewhere.

0:52:130:52:18

I have had a little think and I think the real issue

0:52:200:52:22

is the fact that they just can't get regular access to the tourists - I think that's the main problem.

0:52:220:52:28

So, I think it might be an idea if I just ring a couple of lodges, explain the situation and maybe

0:52:280:52:35

see if anyone's up for maybe meeting me to see whether or not we can get some of the ladies into a lodge.

0:52:350:52:41

That way they'd have constant access with tourists.

0:52:410:52:43

Next morning, Stacey's had some news.

0:52:450:52:48

Ha-ha! How are you today? Ah!

0:52:510:52:54

-Good to see you. I've got something to tell you. I rang a lodge...

-OK.

0:52:540:52:57

..and discussed it and asked maybe if they would

0:52:570:53:01

be up for meeting me and you and maybe talk about having you there?

0:53:010:53:04

-Yes.

-So they said yes.

-Good.

0:53:040:53:07

I'm glad. Da-da-dah!

0:53:070:53:10

So we need to pick a few things to show them what you can make.

0:53:100:53:13

We can show her that.

0:53:130:53:16

Maybe a couple of bracelets, do you want to show her? Da-da-da-dah!

0:53:160:53:19

You have to bring this, Eunice.

0:53:190:53:22

OK. This? This is what will get you the contract.

0:53:220:53:25

-Handbag.

-This bag.

0:53:250:53:27

Yes, handbag. Deffo the bag.

0:53:270:53:29

Ready for action? Yes. Come on then.

0:53:290:53:32

Elephant Pepper lodge is within walking distance of the village.

0:53:320:53:35

It's run by Sophie Macfarlane and her husband.

0:53:350:53:38

-Hello!

-Hi.

-Well, I've brought Eunice here today.

0:53:380:53:41

-Right.

-I think she just wanted to show you some of her bits and bobs

0:53:410:53:44

and see if there was any way maybe in the future, I don't know

0:53:440:53:48

how you would feel about it, but whether or not some of the girls could maybe come into your lodge.

0:53:480:53:53

Could we show the choker? Yeah.

0:53:530:53:55

-First, Stacey shows her the jewellery.

-Yeah.

0:53:550:53:58

A lot of these items were maybe quite novel, say, 20 years ago

0:53:580:54:02

when people really started travelling and really started coming in to this area.

0:54:020:54:07

-OK.

-I'd say now they've sort of seen this stuff, and they want something maybe of a slightly higher quality.

0:54:070:54:14

So something that still requires all the Masai beading and all that kind

0:54:140:54:18

of skill, but something just a little bit different?

0:54:180:54:21

I quite like this, Sophie, because I just thought like I'd seen a lot of

0:54:210:54:25

the bangles and a lot of the necklaces.

0:54:250:54:27

But I mean I quite like that. I'd probably like it a bit bigger, but is that the kind of thing maybe?

0:54:270:54:31

This would bring in more money,

0:54:310:54:33

because it's not something that's just going to sit on a shelf or something.

0:54:330:54:37

You're going to be using it and all your friends will go, oh, wow!

0:54:370:54:41

Would you consider selling it in your lodge if it was a bit different, a bit...?

0:54:410:54:45

-Yeah, definitely.

-Eunice, how do you feel about what Sophie's saying?

0:54:450:54:49

Do you feel like that's something you'd be up for maybe doing?

0:54:490:54:53

Yes. I like it.

0:54:530:54:55

-You like the idea?

-Yes.

0:54:550:54:57

We'll try and work together and see what we can achieve.

0:54:570:55:03

I'm so happy that, you know, I was

0:55:030:55:05

able to bring Eunice here and me, Eunice and Sophie all had a chat and together we've come up

0:55:050:55:11

with this great idea! I'm very happy.

0:55:110:55:14

It's lovely seeing you.

0:55:140:55:16

-Yes, also I.

-Cuddle. Ah!

0:55:160:55:19

OK. Bye.

0:55:190:55:21

-Bye, Eunice.

-Bye.

-Take care.

0:55:210:55:23

See you!

0:55:230:55:25

Stacey's trip to Kenya has come to an end.

0:55:290:55:32

It's not about tourists never coming to Kenya again.

0:55:330:55:36

You know, have a holiday. Don't come here and feel guilty.

0:55:360:55:41

Totally come, the Kenyans want us to come.

0:55:410:55:43

I think it might just be worth, though, once we're here, just being a bit more savvy, a bit more

0:55:430:55:48

in the loop about where our money that we're spending is going and who it is truly benefiting, because

0:55:480:55:54

it's the fat cats, the top dogs, the people at the top that are benefiting from the money

0:55:540:56:00

and maybe it's not filtering down to the people that really do serve us and make our holidays lovely.

0:56:000:56:06

Since filming, the Kenyan High Court has ordered the African Safari Club

0:56:120:56:17

to pay their hotel workers the money they're owed.

0:56:170:56:19

And Eunice and the other women have gone into business with the lodge

0:56:220:56:26

and are now selling bags to their guests.

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