Chang'aa addicted in an alley of the Mathare slum (Nairobi).Chang’aa is the cheapest alcoholic beverage illegally brewed in the slums and most of people drink it in order to keep themselves busy and to reduce the stress of life. To give the drink an "extra kick", the brewers usually add ethanol,formalin, battery acids or jet fuel during the cane sugar fermentation process. The high methanol concentration will cause blindness, sever brain damages and often coma and death.
Chang'aa addicted in an alley of the Mathare slum (Nairobi).Chang’aa is the cheapest alcoholic beverage illegally brewed in the slums and most of people drink it in order to keep themselves busy and to reduce the stress of life. To give the drink an "extra kick", the brewers usually add ethanol,formalin, battery acids or jet fuel during the cane sugar fermentation process. The high methanol concentration will cause blindness, sever brain damages and often coma and death.