Buried without answers: The hidden toll on Kenyan women in the Gulf

Buried without answers: The hidden toll on Kenyan women in the Gulf

At 18, Boniface Murigi never imagined he would be recounting his mother’s life and death to the world.  Yet he sits on a couch in his family’s living room in Gilgil, a small town about two hours northwest of Nairobi, struggling to describe who Sylvia Waithera Karuri was to him. “She was a great mother and a hard worker,” he says. A Sunday school teacher and mother of four, 38-year-old Sylvia owned a hardware store and was building rental houses …