comes up. next on d w. what secrets lie behind the swap. discover new adventures in 360 degree. and explore fascinating world heritage sites. t.w. world heritage 368 get here now. to get ahead of the. huge construction project is underway in kenya's capital nairobi they're widening one of the main freeways. this bridge is due to be torn down it's located in the impoverished district of containing. they are deny robey correspondents having

a ball and calls it the bridge of mine in their records in 2015 poland reported on the thriving commas the takes place on the bridge now she's come back. how has life changed. during that time when other manager jackie who sells vegetables bad bringing a demand. for sale he wanted to become a journalist or young or young without interest felix an apprentice carpenter. in. the. canadians runs a small food stand on the bridge his speciality is meat soup. but business has

fallen off sharply because of the corona virus pandemic. he's still 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 you 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 god and his family 5 years ago because food stand on the bridge was a popular attraction back and we visited him several times to really hear.

this you don't know but people around here don't earn much money and it's tough for them to make ends meet. not only did i given it up just some of them tell me that they only eat once a day. you go to another 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 showings. but if it's a meal that will make you feel good. pleasure when 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 canadians told us that he dreamed of buying user house when. i asked him

how he was getting along now. what's changed in my life well i'm older as you can see. what are the new 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 going to mingle and there's more stress. for now but that's. life isn't as comfortable as it used to be. a little bit in the. us and his wife now have one more mouth to feed. 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. the bridge is 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 tuned down. almost all of the trees that used to provide shade here have been cut down. to. nairobi residents are required to wear a mask whenever they leave the house. in

crowded districts like can give 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. knots of people use it especially because it's free of charge . services like this a rare in kenya these days. as it is what it was a bubble coke a bit about it this time it was a big help in the nation because you go through it and it doesn't fix your entire body in the saudi not just your hands. at that and that makes it harder for you to catch the virus it. was something that's always there but one of them not a clue. but shortly after our visit the tunnel is torn down and.

city officials decided that the disinfectant that was least there was dangerous. nearby we meet another friend from 2015. jeconiah boca is still selling vegetables here at the same places 5 years ago. in 2015 there was still shade trees here. jackie started selling vegetables because she had to. but in a new class i used to be a housewife south that to me was and my husband worked as a nightwatchman but. it was a tough job and it was ruining his and i he took of the day so he quit exactly yet but i took i asked myself how were. going to get by isn't gonna we couldn't afford

to send the kids to school is sick and sometimes we didn't have enough to eat out as it was up and so i decided to go into business for myself and i've been here ever since she was like. 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 they are 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 and some of the produce spoils and we have to throw it out was it up on 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 islam is 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 road to the bus and 2020 because the condemning he had to shut down the sport. at the same time several

new businesses are going to cross the street including a phanatic shop. and. this is felix one birth in 2015 he was still living in the countryside in moved to nairobi teen 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 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 why he believes global delivers on the bridge is an important place for us that brings us customers what it does 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 very very or my view and everybody uses it and that's good for our business. you will not ever want to give it. another mine america all 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 that can. doesn't think so.

you know we are not dirty have be because. their covers to go get them on. so you know us would have been so it's not the truth of the world. so we are not a very have been but but that is that is lived. life on the bridge was never easy even before the pandemic heavy rain often shouted the roads and time our cities for common. safety of the other 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. saidee 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 was sad and the community so. if you know you swept wing it was improving society think i would be ok. another mine american society was the 1st in his family which includes 11 siblings to graduate from university. his goal was to move out of the slum and make something of himself. that there is a that i went. you get out of bed much opposition getting out and then if i get any

means of getting out of bed it will be quite good for me so that because i was doing that student but now i think i'm good you did the other side of being a bit of of the community yeah the graduates so i sure lots are doing them and whatever they're doing and yeah some more important things make up. in 2020 we managed to track down safety he's now working his family small found in western kenya. says. he moved here because he couldn't find work as a journalist in nairobi. actually

when i came back. yeah they were disappointed to know there has been so much on me and they were looking forward full 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 i spend for about close to one year without a job and you can imagine all the hassles of that ends and everything so i just decided to park and come back just to do. some activities. sadie's mother had even sold account 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 was

so mad last ima day after your son finishes his studies he's got to make an effort and find a job come phones i helped raise the money so that he could go to college and now i expect him to take care of me to buy me new clothes and so forth in the end and he's graduated now. so if i need soap or sugar or if i get sick it's his responsibility to take care of these things about it guys. 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.

on this train to. look for some ways to survive and also hoping that an idea. you know at least o'clock so that i can start working with the. honor of coming 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 at the local market. i think. it's fair to say he told us that he doesn't plan to return to nairobi anytime soon .

this is 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 the. 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 can 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. so when you want to talk to you and. your mindset. if you think positive. things we just have to be patient i came here i have no house there's a time i slept also. from a kid. and i i almost kept myself thinking positive i told myself i'm not going back home. every few days jackie any of the good leads nairobi and dr tormented farm field to harvest vegetables. and she doesn't want to work like this forever. to get your body

that i could if i went back to my home village i'd have to start all over again 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 finish up at a level have no reason to stay will just go back home and hopefully with some money that we've saved the. bad. nothing much has changed here in the last 5 years. it would. mess up the family and. jackie will not be able to return home for a few mooney's she still pushing her 3 children through school and still 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 the robi's privately owned mini buses that service taxis. called motel tubes. but the pandemic has cut the number of passengers to about half a ticket prices have doubled. some people who work on the bridge felix still hopes for a better life. others like jackie a simply trying to tough it out. some people experience mine americans others struggle to get by and when the bridge is torn down the lines 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. i want the pope to bless this water so that as many people as possible can buy it. if you drink as well they want to that but the hog will get his blessing when yeah. cause

was cut francis made a point of visiting the kundalini district because. he was. was asked. at one stop the pontiff told the crowd that he was well aware of the difficulties that the people of kenya face on a daily basis and he denounced the injustices that they suffered. know that yeah. that's only well and good but how would francis propose to actually make life better here. any improvements in me by the people themselves without much help from the government or the catholic church. by the way here's how

that wrote a freshly paved in 2015 that looks today. that. the nearby construction work has not affected gawkers food stand very much. this afternoon he's preparing high. made sense 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. buildings we don't have the come down and not as we will be bored. there was no bridge 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 come with tales because of nor seeing 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 to family to shop where felix works but when exactly will this happening. throughout the moment emerge while at 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 cedar 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 we'll be stuck. there for mother visible. proof. we need felix again he loves football and he comes to this field every weekend to cheer his favorite team. oh.

the one. then he meets up with some friends 1st of all they say a prayer to gether. saw it all but what 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. war to get it believes it's likely that. 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. this certainly not going to get any financial help from the government a little bit 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. to non-alcohol monsoor that will end up. i can't protect them when they're running around the neighborhood in the middle the 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 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 miracle these people manage to overcome an enormous difficulties on

a daily basis and they do it without complaining they simply get on with the job at hand but. there are no buildings this today to check if you keep selling your vegetables. but the w did a mob a go buy say for sure our livelihood depends on the bridge but if they tear it down it's not the end of the world as it will just set up shop somewhere else at the end of my set. and when they rebuild it will come back just like before you get up on one of us the one that's all but that baby they. say here nairobi life goes on at the bridge of mine american school a place where ordinary people make the best of their lives despite overwhelming or upset. or.

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