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Shock of mothers, daughters pushed to engage in sex work to survive

Some of the streets in Naivasha town where commercial sex workers have resorted to using their houses to entertain clients following the closure of bars and introduction of curfew. [Antony Gitonga]  

Jane (not her real name), a self-confessed sex worker says that 2020 will go down as one of the worst years of her life.

The 35-year-old mother of two teenage girls has lost tens of "clients" due to the coronavirus that saw the Government introduce curfew and ban night operations for bars where she operated from.

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