Working from home: Nairobi sex workers have moved to city estates

An evening drive through the heavy metallic double gates, manned by hawk eyed security in one of the gated communities east of Nairobi ushers you into the ordered world of the middle class.  Overweight women jog around in body hugging gym clothes as school buses from academies drop privileged children outside their parents’ gates. It is a perfect place to raise a family. 

It is, however, an open secret that sex trade thrives chini ya maji within in one of the houses within the community. 
Behind the permanently barred gate and stone walled perimeter fence crowned with razor sharp electric wires, a group of women have set up a ‘relaxation house’ for men who want some time away from the vagaries of life inflicted by the Covid-19 pandemic.