women are in charge. the archipelago has a patriarchal system for centuries and. the rare form of society. women differently than. what do they do with their passwords. and how sustainable is this culture. cleans of the rango started marching on d w. a huge construction project is underway in kenya's capital nairobi the widening one of the main freeways. in this bridge is due to be torn down it's located in the impoverished district of come gaming. robey correspondent sabina borland calls it

the bridge of mine in there and holds in 2015 poland reported on the thriving comus that takes place on the bridge now she's come back and. how has life changed. during that time. for jackie who sells vegetables bad thing when you're in a demand. for saving he wanted to become a journalist or young or young without interest felix an apprentice carpenter. in. the. elite people. who runs a small food stand on the the. rich his speciality is meat soup. but business has

fallen off sharply the because of the corona virus pandemic. he 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 like 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 all. the liberal media. 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 isn't short supply. we 1st met mcguckin and his family 5 years ago because food stand on the bridge was a popular attraction back then. we visited him several times during the year.

this is the lawyer but people around here don't earn much money and it's tough for them to make ends meet. not only going to get into business some of them tell me that they only eat once a day. they 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. place them 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 clearly. told us that he dreamed of buying user and house we 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 one inning and there's more stress. when the 3rd wife isn't as comfortable as it used to be. a little bit. 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 my hands 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. to all of the trees that used to provide shade here i think cut down. nairobi residents are required to wear a mask whenever they leave the house. included

districts like him gave me it's tough to meet social distancing guidelines. at one end of the bridge and 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 are rare in kenya these days. going up on that as it is what it was a bubble. with about it this time it was a big help. 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 in a moment you already got on up with something that says i was about one of. them.

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. in 2015 there was still shade trees here. jackie started selling vegetables because she had to. bend in your class i used to be a housewife south that to me to the house and my husband worked as a nightwatchman right but. it was a tough job and it was ruining his life he got the day so he quit the back. yeah

like i said i ask myself how are we going to give by this isn't going to we couldn't afford to send the kids to school the sick and sometimes we didn't have enough to eat out as i was up at the so i decided to go into business for myself and i've been here ever since let's take. 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're part of a pandemic has really changed everything before we could sell a bag of vegetables and one or 2 days see quite a night 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 a bit up on a as up but it is sometimes we don't earn enough to cover our living expenses as a bonus 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 but 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 us is a total bust and 2020. because that can demick he had to shut down the sports pump

. at the same time several new businesses opened across the street including a fan a shop. this is felix one birth in 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 a security guard. felix has no experience with company but he's a fine example of learning by doing. he landed this job purely by chance. but it won't go nearly over so on the bridge is an important place for us that 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 the life of me

a lot harder without this bridge whether it be was a very very well my view and everybody uses it and that's good for our business. you will not ever want to give it. another minor miracle 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 could 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. doesn't think so.

you know we are not good to have be because. their covers leader got them on. so you know us would have been so know the truth of the world. so we are not diverting how they got but that is that is lived. life on the bridge was never easy even before the pandemic heavy rain often shouted the roads and towers it is for the common. safety of the other a student who was one of the people we interviewed back in 2015 life in his neighborhood was difficult to. say the sure as 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 i said to him and the community so. if you know you swept wing buds in living society think i will 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. i don't see that on when to get out of bed

much opposition getting out there if i get any means of getting out of it would 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 the overflow of the community yeah they did i don't suppose so i chose or doing them whatever they're saying and yeah some more important things make up. in 2020 we managed to track down safety he's now working his family small farm 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's been so much on me and they were looking forward full maybe some good fruits but he was coming and heroes saying that i'm prepared to do fighting 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 has been there for about close to one year without a job and you can imagine all the hassles of 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 a cow 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 and got a good. elastomer after your son vanishes his studies he's got to make an effort and find a job to do income for 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 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 because. this is often how kenya's social security system works adult children are expected to provide for their parents. we asked if you still plan to become a reporter. is it because in this situation that has.

made lanes on this train to. you know for some ways to survive and also hoping that an idea. generalistic luck so that i can start working. under cover up because 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. if saidee 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 game it so the people who live there 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 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 a bed frame to pay the 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 we're going to. let someone know what i think. that. if you think positive. things we just have to be patient i came here i had no house there's a time i slept also. from a good one. and i almost get myself thinking positive i told myself i'm not going back home. every few days jacking a burger at least nairobi and drive tormented farm field to harvest vegetables. and

she doesn't want to work like this forever. and then you read it as though 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 i will have no reason to stay will just go back home hopefully with some money that we have saved for quite as 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 the 3 children's risk pool and you have to keep working like this and tell a finish. jackie is the family's unli source of income her husband doesn't have

a job. this is one of the robi's privately owned mini buses this service taxis. called metallic 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 like felix still hope 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 to visit. i want the pope to bless this water so that as many people as possible can buy it. if you drink as well the water

that the dog will get his blessing when yeah. cause was cut francis made a point of visiting the kundalini district posit was . last. that one stop the pontiff told the crowd that he was well aware of the difficulties that the people of continuous face on a daily basis and he denounced the injustices that they suffered. no it. that's only well and good but how would francis propose to actually make life better here. any improvements are made by the people i'm self's without much help from the government or the catholic church. by the way here's how

that road freshly paved in 2015 looks today. and. the nearby construction market is not affected as mcguckin food stand very much. this afternoon he's preparing high. made sense just a populace not the people who on their way home from work. to sit in gura has lived in this neighborhood for yes. he was here when the bridge was built back in the 1970 s. . you see they do development. things we don't have the come down not ours with a big board up there with no bridges saw a new thing when it came to us now i hear ideas going to be demolished how it is going to be about here i come 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 will is happening. through a bubble menomonie while at the bridge disappears i finished again. i depend on this location where the bottom of it would 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 and tara down and we'll be stuck with . her for her. for. we need felix again he loves football and he comes to this field every weekend to cheer his favorite team. up with.

the one. then he meets up with some friends. first of all they say appraiser gether. 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. difficult it was just 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 being jobs it is all about assisting each other. coming together and putting

each other a day 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 whether they're 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 nano that will end up i can't protect them when they're running around the neighborhood and other 6 and i leave the house at 6 in the morning and don't get home till 7 or 8 at night and i was on being a muslim org 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. mining they simply get on and do the job at hand. there are no buildings this today to check you can keep selling your vegetables. but the but he did i say 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. the one that's all good but that they did they. get so here nairobi life goes on at the bridge of mine america is a place where ordinary people make the best of their lives despite overwhelming or .

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