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A court in Mombasa has awarded Ksh 1.3 billion, the equivalent of about twelve million USD, to 3000 residents of Owino Uhuru, an informal settlement sprawling along a highway just outside Mombasa island. The collective action was started in 2016, following the death of at least fifty people among them 30 children who lived near the now-closed smelting plant, Metal Refinery EPZ. In the process of extracting lead from used car batteries, the plant polluted the sorrounding air and water with poisonous fumes containing lead. Audrey Brown has been talking to Phyllis Omido, who was the first to file the case to court after her son got sick.