On the warm afternoon of June 3, the backstreets of Migingo Estate in the Kitengela township presented a troubling picture of despair and neglect.

A few metres from an illicit brew den hidden within a residential plot; a woman was sprawled on the bare ground, heavily drunk and oblivious to her surroundings. Nearby, several other women, equally drunk, sat on wooden benches, deep in conversation, while business continued uninterrupted at the illegal drinking spot.