Glimpses of Resilience and Ingenuity amidst the Covid19 Pandemic
Mama Mboga Corona virus pandemic has disrupted the normal activities of Kenyans from every sector with those from low income areas feeling the brunt of this pandemic. Its disruption on the farm to fork food supply chain, especially on small sca ...
COVID 19 – INVISIBLE COMMUNITIES
Lilian Akoth -38 Selling greens is one of the businesses that was affected immediately they announced coronavirus, people are fearful and our products coming from upcountry was interrupted immediately. Getting the goods from upcountry ...
COVID-19 INVISIBLE COMMUNITIES – KOROGOCHO KISUMU NDOGO VILLAGE
Rosemary Awour- 41 Cereal Seller Business is not that bad to be honest, my products are very useful to people living in the slums. I sell maize and beans, this is a good meal and cheap for families now that you have children at hom ...
COVID-19 INVISIBLE COMMUNITIES – KOROGOCHO MARKET
Rita Ambuso- 45 Fish Monger The silver lining here is that my competitors who selling Chinese fish are out of business, they all closed down. People are worried that all our fish comes from China so my job now is to convince custom ...
COVID-19 INVISIBLE COMMUNITIES
Elizabeth Wateri- 37 MPESA attendant On a normal working day, we service 10 to 15 customers in a day transacting substantial amounts, mostly business people in the market. At the moment, we have reduced to 7 so I too have had to sc ...
COVID-19 INVISIBLE COMMUNITIES – KOROGOCHO MARKET
Anthony Kinuthia- 45 Hawker If people are struggling to buy food can you imagine anyone buying clothes? As you can see the general trend in the market is that people are reducing spending or they don’t have money to buy things. So, ...
COVID-19 INVISIBLE COMMUNITIES – KOROGOCHO NYAYO VILLAGE
Josephat Mongela – 45 Posho Mill attendant Customers don’t spend as much as they used to if I were to compare it to during holidays where children will be at home. We are used to doing two bags of maize flour in a day the whole of ...
COVID-19 INVISIBLE COMMUNITIES – KOROGOCHO
Rita Awino- 20 Beautician My customers usually come from far to get their hair done here because we are cheap and we have quick moving hair. Since coronavirus our customers haven’t come to us they are fearing we have it and we will ...
COVID-19 – INVISIBLE COMMUNITIES
Grace Okeyo- 42 Banana Seller I get my goods from Meru, in good times, we would be getting three times supply from the farms there, and clear selling them on a day or two. This week we only have got one supply only and as you can see the Ban ...
COVID-19 INVISIBLE COMMUNITIES – NYAYO VILLAGE (KOROGOCHO)
Anna Nyakaria- 77 years Day care We are closed following government directives that all schools should be closed. We used to pick children from their homes, place them in a shelter that we call day care, feed them porridge in the m ...