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From 'role models' to sex workers: Kenya's child labour rises

Three girls sharing a room saw their mothers sources of income vanish when Kenyas government clamped down to prevent the spread of the virus

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A girl, 10, breaks rocks along with her family after her mother lost her cleaning job at a school in Nairobi, Kenya, on September 29. Pic/AP

A girl, 10, breaks rocks along with her family after her mother lost her cleaning job at a school in Nairobi, Kenya, on September 29. Pic/AP

The teenage girls cannot remember how many men they have had to sleep with in the seven months since COVID-19 closed their schools, or how many of those men used protection.

Painfully, they recall times when they were sexually assaulted and then beaten up when they asked to be paid — as little as $1 — to help feed their families as jobs evaporated during the pandemic.

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