Moments after being fired from her hotel job on Tuesday, Rebecca Atieno, 20, headed to Nairobi's Uhuru Park, the only place she could find a moment's solace. Confused, hopeless and reeling from the symptomatic third trimester pregnancy exhaustion, she found a spot at the park where she hoped to gather her wits.
The previous night, her landlord had kicked her out for failing to pay Sh50 at a rundown lodging in Muthurwa.