While we were hoping that our students would return this week, a nationwide dawn-to-dusk curfew has been extended for an additional 30 days in Kenya and schools remain closed. Individuals are allowed to return to work but because the families we work with depend upon casual labor, and not a typical paycheck, they still have no access to employment. Here’s an overview of how Covid-19 has affected Kenya (download here):

Data Sources —

• Relief Web: Kenya Emergency Appeal

• UNICEF: Pandemic Dashboard for Eastern & Southern Africa

• Plan International’s Press Release

• World Food Program: “Hunger could double in East Africa and the Horn in months as coronavirus spreads”

• The Mercury News: “Food distribution sparks stampede in Kenya”

• Devex: “A timeline of the coronavirus outbreak”

• Ministry of Heath: “First case of coronavirus disease confirmed in Kenya”

• The Lancet