We have heard a lot about a national level of collaboration between countries through the African Union and Africa Task Force for Novel Coronavirus (AFCOR), with numbers of COVID-19 cases in Africa lower than expected. However, in this webinar we hear first hand from Reverend Cyprian Yobera, Founder of The Kanzi Kibera Friends and Kanzi Kenya Foundation, who assist in the chances of disadvantaged children living in Kibera. Cyprian will share his own experience of being in mandatory quarantine for 31 days and the impossibility of having mandatory quarantine in Kenya without thinking carefully through the modalities, implications and ramifications.

The Kenyan Government (as most African governments) has struggled to make sense of how to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic and in the process may have made some very costly mistakes. Cyprian will discuss the reality for the impoverished and marginalised who live hand to mouth with a lack of washing facilities. What do people do when they get sick and with a lack of financial support, how are people expected to survive?

All this is happening with a backdrop of getting quite a lot of donations from various circles, yet the government insists on mandatory quarantine, and subsequent isolation is to be paid for by the individual. The poor and marginalised are the greatest sufferers.

COVID-19 - what is the reality for the poor and marginalised in Kenya?