UNICEF Kenya helps children with remote learning

12-year-old Diana Anyango lives in Korogocho, the fourth largest informal settlement (or urban slum) in Nairobi, Kenya. It’s a place where people live in close quarters, often without power or access to running water. Makeshift houses constructed from wood and iron are raised precariously two or three floors high. Clothes are hung out to dry on old electricity cables, stretched across narrow alleyways. From a wooden balcony, Diana looks out over the rusted rooftops to the formal houses and tower blocks beyond the settlement. The street below, usually busy with vendors and “boda-boda” motorbikes, is half empty. A few pedestrians walk past wearing face masks.

Before the COVID-19 outbreak in Kenya, Diana loved going to school. She spent much of her free time at ACAKORO, a community-based organization, supported by UNICEF, which uses football as a tool for development. Diana used to play as a defender. But then, at the end of March, schools in Kenya were closed because of the pandemic. Shortly afterwards, movement in and out of Nairobi was banned. Diana’s parents were out of town at the time and couldn’t return, so she was looked after by her neighbour, Beatrice Akinya.

Trans.Lieu was engaged to produce this feature human-interest story of the ongoing COVID-19 response activities supported by UNICEF. Our crew interacted with Diana and other students to know and understand how they cope with this pandemic.

You can read the full story on the UNICEF Kenya website: UNICEF helps children with remote learning, while preparing for school reopening

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Client: UNICEF Kenya

Services: Video production and photography

Year: 2020