the journey back into the stream of slavery. i think will truly be making progress when we all accept the used to have slavery as all of our history. our documentary series slavery routes starts march 10th on d w. a huge construction project is underway in kenya's capital nairobi the widening one of the main freeways. this bridge is due to be torn down it's located in the impoverished district of cum gaming. robey correspondents have been a ball and calls it the bridge of mine in the recalls in 2015 poland reported on

the thriving commerce that takes place on the bridge now she's come back. how has life changed. during that time you know where you could jackie who sells vegetables bad when you're in the internet. to say you wanted to become a journalist or young or you know you know interest felix an apprentice carpenter. people. who meet people. who can e.d.s. runs a small food stand on the bridge his speciality is meat super. big business has fallen off sharply because of the coronavirus pandemic of a he. concerned about the virus than he is about the bridge being torn down.

it's really dangerous because no one knows where it comes from make you hear all sorts of rumors but you can catch it at any time whatever whether you put your hand on something and then if your touch your nose or mouth you get infected with a. new korea. the 1st cases were reported in kenya last march and the government imposed a series of strict preventative measures people are required to wash their hands often but that can be difficult when running musha is in short supply. we 1st met magog and his family 5 years ago because food stand on the bridge was a popular attraction back and we visited him several times during the year.

this. but people around here don't earn much money and it's tough for them to make ends meet. given that up just some of them tell me that they only eat once a day. you would do whatever you know in the soup at my place costs just 10 shillings it is one of the most people can afford that. but the same soup with meat costs 20 shillings. but if it's a meal that will make you feel good. like him and i've been. today still charges 10 shillings for a bowl of soup that's about $0.08 but inflation has hit kenya hard recently. 5 years ago conelly has told us that he trained by news and house we asked him how he was getting along now. gilligan about what's changed. my life

well and all those who can see. what are the near 100 other than that things are pretty much still the same. though it's getting tougher for my family. the kids are growing older and. my doc you know one evening and there's more stress. but the 3rd wife isn't as comfortable as it used to be. a little bit in the. canadians and his wife now have one more mouth to feed their 1st daughter was born 3 years ago. she ended an older sister often stopped by their father's food stand. they have lots of time on the hand since the schools in nairobi were closed last march because of the pandemic.

of. the bridges located on the northern outskirts of the city over a freeway that is often seriously congested. that's why the officials decided to widen it to make room the bridge will have to be torn down. almost all of the trees that used to provide shade here have been cut down. the. nairobi residents are required to wear a mask whenever they leave the house. even . in crowded districts like him gave me it's tough to meet social distancing guidelines. at one end of the bridge

a disinfection tunnel has been set up it was donated by a local businessman. not so people use it especially because it's free of charge services like this a rare in kenya these days. going up and up as it is what it was a bubble coke a bit about it this time it was a big help in a place because you go through it and it doesn't fix your entire body but only in the saudi not just your hands. but that and that makes it harder for you to catch the virus that you know what we got there and it was something that's i was about one up on not a clue. but shortly after our visit the tunnel was turned down and the. city officials decided that the disinfectant that was used there was dangerous.

nearby we meet another friend from 2015. jeconiah boca is still selling vegetables here at the same places 5 years ago. it was. in 2015 there was still shade trees here. jackie started selling vegetables because she had to. fit in a new class i used to be a housewife south that to me it was and my husband worked as a nightwatchman but. it was a tough job and it was ruining his life he took of the day so he quit we got to go yet but i took i asked myself how are we going to get by isn't going to we couldn't afford to send the kids to school and be sick and sometimes we didn't have enough.

to 8 hours i was up and so i decided to go into business for myself and i've been here ever since you last day. these days jackie smiles less often than she used to and she looks tired after all she's on her feet from morning till night she and only about $300.00 shillings a day that's less than 3 euros. each and there the pandemic has really changed everything before we could sell a bag of vegetables and one or 2 days but now it often takes us 3 days to sell everything some of the produce spoils and we have to throw it out when it was it would have been a as up but it is sometimes we don't earn enough to cover our living expenses. as with that but again united people not before. 2015 was a special year in kenya u.s. president barack obama came to visit.

also that year islamist militants killed $147.00 people at a university in northern kenya most of the victims were students. and there was a big fire on the freeway bridge in nairobi 200 people lost their businesses but they soon rebuilt everything by themselves it was one of the many mine in miracles that we've seen here. at the time. expanded his food stand into a low budget sports bar complete with t.v. it was a new source of income for him. the logistical budget and 2020 because of clan demick he had to shut down the sports bar. at the same time several new businesses open to cross the. each including

a fan of his shop. and. this is felix one birth and 2015 he was still living in the countryside in moved to nairobi 2 years ago to look for work and for the past 3 months he's been building beds and before that he worked as a driver and as a security guard. felix has no experience with the company but he's a fine example of learning by doing. he landed this job purely by chance. for him what he believes global delivers on the bridges an important place for us and brings us customers what makes this in our video and we can buy lots of different goods here in our model but i want to get both of you know what life would be a lot harder without this bridge whether it be was a military or my view and everybody uses it and that's good for business you know

you will not ever want to give it. another mind american you can fit the component parts of this bed on a motorcycle. but what will happen to these businesses when the bridges to down. the bulldozers are moving ever closer and when they get here the shops will disappear. last summer kenya's president kenyatta announced that some of the coronal restrictions would be used for example residents of nairobi would be allowed to travel outside the city and the start of the curfew would be pushed back by 2 hours to 9 pm perhaps another minor miracle but. it doesn't things that. you know we are not a really have be because. the governor's the girl who got them on. so you know us

would have been so know the truth of the world. so we are not diverting how but but that is that is lived. life on the bridge was never easy even before the pandemic heavy rain often shot at the roads and towers it is for common. saidee i've done a student was one of the people we interviewed back in 2015 life in his neighborhood was difficult. saidee showed us the shack where he lived. and had to study by candlelight.

sainty dreamed of becoming a radio reporter. he saw this as a way to help improve living conditions in kenya. i understand that generalising is the only bridge between this society and the community so. if you deny he swept quickly it was improving society think i'll be ok. another mine american society was the 1st in his family which includes an 11 siblings to graduate from university. his goal was to move out of the slum and make something of himself. as eco see that's on when to get out of them you know much out with these are getting out there if i get any means of getting out of there it will be. quite good for me because i was doing that student but now i

think i'm glad you did the other side of the. of the community yeah the graduates so i shows are doing them whatever they're doing and yeah some more important things maybe. in 2020 we managed to track down safety he's now working on his family small found in western kenya. says. he lived here because he couldn't find work as a journalist in nairobi. actually

when i came back. yeah they were disappointed to know there's been so much on me and they were looking forward for maybe some good fruits but here i was coming and heroes saying that i'm prepared to do farming on their their farm they were disappointed but for me. i just took it as normal because. i looked because when i was just living in a rugby. for about close to one year we did our job and you can imagine all the hassles all their friends and everything so i just decided to pack up and come back just to do. some activities. sadie's mother had even sold the count to help pay for her son's education that was a fortune for her and she had high hopes that her son would be successful. but i can myself also mama elastomer i cafferty after your son finishes his studies

he's got to make an effort and find a job you'll come phones i helped raise the money so that he could go to college and now i expect him to take care of me and to buy me new clothes and so forth mean yadi and then he's graduated now. so if i need so poor sugar or if i get sick it's his responsibility to take care of these things about a class. this is often how kenya's social security system works i don't children are expected to provide for their parents. but we asked if you still plan to become a reporter. trying to use it because of the situation that has. moved. this train to. look for some ways to survive and also hoping that an idea to

generalistic luck so that i can start working with the. under cover up the extended family can live quite well on this farm they have enough to eat and they can sell some of the surplus projects to the local market. if say he told us that he doesn't plan to return to nairobi any time soon. to. do. this if he doesn't pick up the garbage in the slums of can gain it so the people

who live then have to dispose of it themselves in. phoenix one borough the apprentice carpenter still believes that he can make a go of it in the big city. see the money. felix and his girlfriend sylvia have been living together since last spring they plan to get married one day. she doesn't have a job right now so his income supports them both. as the pandemic wore on they had to sell their bed frame to pay their rent and buy food. but the last thing they plan to sell is the t.v.

. it's their link to the outside world. is waiting for word. that's what you want to do with. your mindset. if you think positive. things will just work out and to have to be patient i came here i had no house there's a time i slept also. outside from a good bundle and i almost kept myself thinking positive i told myself i'm not going back home. every few days jacking a bloke at least nairobi and drives out to a rented farm field to harvest vegetables. and she doesn't want to work like this forever. and again they do but if i could if i went back to my home village i'd

have to start all over again and my life there is still easier than in the city we're staying in nairobi just to raise our kids and earn money for their education . but when they finished will have no reason to stay will just go back home and hopefully with some money that we have saved. by and. nothing much has changed here in the last 5 years to. make up the family and. jackie will not be able to return home for a few mooney's she still pushing the 3 children's risk pool and to have to keep working like this and tell a finish. jackie is the family's and only source of income her husband doesn't have a job.

this is one of her robe is privately owned minibuses the service taxis. called metallic tubes. but the kind i am i can cut the number of passengers to about half the ticket prices have doubled. some people who work on the bridge like felix still hope for a better life. others like jackie a simply trying to tough it out. some people experience mine a miracle others struggle to get by and when the bridge is torn down the lungs will become even more difficult. kenya's rainy season begins in october.

where the bulldozers have already torn down some of the shops on the bridge but some people keep trying to turn back the. in 2015 crews repaired the roadway over the bridge as the city prepared to welcome a special guest. pope francis. some tried to take advantage of the pontiff visit. we marquis i want the pope to bless this water so that as many people as possible can buy. if you drink as well they want to that but they are going to take his blessing and when yeah. cause was cut francis made

a point of visiting the kundalini district odd was. bad. but one stop the pontiff told the crowd that he was well aware of the difficulties that the people of cleanness face on a daily basis and he denounced the injustices that they suffered. no it was yeah. that's only well and good but how would francis propose to actually make life better here. any improvements are made by the people themselves without much help from the government or the catholic church. by the way here's how that road freshly paved in 2015 looks today. at.

the nearby construction workers not affected gawkers food stand very much. this afternoon he's preparing high. made sausage just a populist snack for people who are on their way home from work. to sit in korea has lived in this neighborhood for yes. he was here when the bridge was built back in the 1970 s. . easy to do development. things we don't have the come down not as one of the big board. there was no breed saw a new thing when it came to us now i hear it is going to be demolished how it is going to be about here i can with tales because of nursing them up. but one thing is clear these people will have to move to small businesses. because food stands. jacking and events to bills. and the family to shop where felix works but when

exactly little is happening. throughout the momentum or while if the bridge disappears i finish together. i depend on this location where the bottom of it will be hard to find a new place and new customers siddha the city official should have told us a lot earlier what they plan to do it and we'd have had time to prepare. but now it looks like they're just going to come in here in terre del and will be stuck. on whether there's a woman. her or her. crew. we need felix again he loves football and he comes to this field every weekend to cheer his favorite team. oh. no one is. then he meets up with some friends 1st of all they say

a prayer to gather. saw it all but work most of the people here have lost their jobs because of the pandemic they formed a self-help group to deal with a situation. where they pay what little money they have into a joint fund that pays for their health and unemployment insurance and pension contributions when it's all recorded in this log book. yes it was a bit. more difficult it was just everybody. this gathering. is all about togetherness supporting each other uplifting your brother. remembering those who have more opportunity or getting jobs or else they have jobs but it is not always paying jobs it is all about assisting each other. coming together and putting each other there at the same level. jackie belongs to a similar group made up of other women who sell vegetables. they have to stick together

to survive they will win this certainly not going to get any financial help from the government a little earlier but right now jackie is particularly concerned about her children she's afraid that while they're away from school her son will turn to drugs or her daughter will get pregnant. you know no had to come and see what i do now. i can't protect them when they're running around the neighborhood i mean a double 6 when i leave the house at 6 in the morning and don't get home till 7 or 8 at night and i was a muslim what did you do i have no idea what they do during the day and i i don't know who they meet but i try to talk to them in the evening and warn them about getting into trouble. and that's a real maricopa these people manage to overcome enormous difficulties on a daily basis and they do it without complaining they simply get on and do the job

at hand but. there are no buildings this today to check you can keep selling have vegetables. but the but he did know my body of i say sure our livelihood depends on the bridge fell but if they tear it down it's not the end of the world as it will just set up shop somewhere else and that and that myself. and all that and when they rebuild it i will come back just like before you get up on that as equal as a robot that they did they. saw here nairobi life goes on at the bridge of mine a miracle it's a place where ordinary people make the best of their lives despite overwhelming or .

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