In our arrangement of letters from African columnists, Kenyan Joseph Warungu takes a gander at the demonstrations of liberality helping normal individuals through frantically attempting occasions.
When Covid-19 hit Africa, the impacts were decimating - however a few people have been squashed more than others, by the disease yet in addition by the measures to manage it.
Non-public school educators, who make up a lot of the training workforce, have been especially hard hit by school terminations as they have no wellbeing net and by and large 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 insufferable, 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 resume for tests. In any case, when that choice was turned around, the agony was excessively.
Akindele, who is hitched with three kids 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 significant other said to me, 'Don't cry, it's alright, we'll oversee, by one way or another.' But I was thinking about the numerous instructors who have nothing to take care of their families. Much of the time, both spouse and husband are instructors. That is the whole family pay gone - inconclusively."
Incapable to manage his own and other educators' weights, he went to his cell phone and spilled out his distress.
A companion saw the video recording and encouraged him to post it on the web. It became famous online, acquiring him the epithet of "the crying instructor".
Akindele says he recorded it in the expectation of urging individuals to help other tuition based school educators out of luck.
Nigerian columnist Lara Wise propelled a Facebook crusade to discover Akindele and asked him to post a second clasp with his record subtleties. Gifts poured in from around the globe.
Overpowered by the liberality, Akindele chose to re-direct the more than 1.2m naira ($3,100; £2,400) to many penniless instructors.
"I said to myself - since God has tried me and has opened a route for the cash to come in, in the event that I ought to sit on that cash, it implies I'm perched on the predetermination of my youngsters.
"That is the manner by which we began searching for educators who were battling. We contacted in excess of 200 educators and gave them enough staple including rice, spaghetti. We additionally put some cash in envelopes and gave it them."
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