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Promising young fencers in Kenyan slum poised for sport's positive effects
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Wanyoike later won a scholarship to South Africa and qualified as a teacher. He returned to his hometown in Nairobi to set up the fencing club Tsavora Fencing Mtaani in 2021, determined to help young people.
"The only thing they could do was ... crime and drugs; for ladies, prostitution," Wanyoike said.
His story is one that Dixon Mumia can understand.