On 15 January 2009, IRIN spoke to Alice Wanjiru, 44, a resident of Nairobi's largest informal settlement, Kibera, who survives by selling vegetables in the sprawling slum:
"The prices of most foodstuffs have almost doubled since last year; my husband, our three children and I have had to make changes in what we eat and the quantities of food. Instead of using the whole 2kg packet of unga [maize meal] we now use a half or three-quarters to make ugali [porridge made out of maize meal]. And now we never eat meat.
