In our arrangement of letters from African writers, Kenyan Joseph Warungu takes a gander at the demonstrations of liberality helping conventional individuals through frantically attempting occasions.
When Covid-19 hit Africa, the impacts were decimating - yet a few people have been squashed more than others, by the sickness yet in addition by the measures to manage it.
Tuition based school instructors, who make up a lot of the training workforce, have been especially hard hit by school terminations as they have no wellbeing net and much of the time no firm return date either.
Many have gone to cultivating, cleaning and road selling meanwhile.
'Try not to cry, it's alright'
The strain has gotten deplorable, moving numerous to tears - among them Akindele Oluwasheun Oladipupo in Nigeria's capital, Abuja.
He and different instructors were brimming with trust in July when the Nigerian government said it would permit schools to revive for tests. In any case, when that choice was turned around, the agony was excessively.
Akindele, who is hitched with three youngsters under eight years, let me know in a phone meet that he just sat in stun processing the news, before tears ran down his face.
"My better half said to me, 'Don't cry, it's alright, we'll oversee, some way or another.' But I was thinking about the numerous educators who have nothing to take care of their families. As a rule, both spouse and husband are instructors. That is the whole family pay gone - inconclusively."
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