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 morning, lunch, and give them a sendoff porridge at 4 PM.
We have 95 children every day to take care of their parents are single mothers who work in Estates as cleaners.
The mothers used to lock their children in houses as they go to find work, children would be starving, cry the whole day, get sick, and many would die out of neglect. The mothers were only being practical as Mama Fua you can’t show up to someone’s house with a child on your back, no one will give you work.
This program has been running for two years with 31 mothers getting direct help from us, at the moment they are back to locking children at their houses. They have to fend for themselves, no one can stay in the house even for a day.
We had employed six workers they were all jobless today.