progress that came too late to change much for i remark keamy her thyroid gland is still swollen and her blood still contains more than 80 times the amount of lead considered on safe 10 years ago her father and brother worked in the plant extracting lead from the used car batteries when they came back home irene would wash their clothes. even before the tests i suffered a lot. i would get sick with a fever all the time. and sometimes i'd hallucinate and sometimes my body would shake so hard i was on able to hold anything in my hands and. then when i received the test results i was told i had 420 micrograms of lead protest leader in my blood i was so traumatised and i think that anything over 5 micrograms per deciliter is considered high the religulous work of phyllis or mido and her fellow activists brought a further breakthrough in the summer of 2021 they want a class action suit against the factory owners and the kenyan environmental authorities the community was rewarded 1300000000 kenyan shillings or 10000000 euros the compensation is yet to be paid to the residents of a we know