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Kenya: COVID-19 – Nairobi Jobless Youth to Get Sh616 Per Day for a Month

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More than 10,000 jobless youths living in informal settlements in Nairobi are set to benefit from a programme aimed at cushioning them with daily income in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The youths will be offered Sh616 every day for the one-month long programme.

This is part of a project spearheaded by the State Department of Housing dubbed Kazi Mtaani to be rolled out across 23 informal settlements countrywide in phases to provide more than 26,000 youths with immediate job opportunities.

In Nairobi, 10,600 youths living in Mathare, Kibera, Mukuru and Korogocho slums have been enlisted in the first phase of the programme where they will be expected to undertake daily sanitation and environment preservation duties in their respective settlements.

DAILY INCOME

State Department of Housing and Urban Development Principal Secretary, Charles Hinga, said they will earn a daily wage while undertaking duties such as access paths and ‘street’ cleaning, fumigation and disinfection, garbage collection, bush clearance and drainage unclogging services, among others.

“The payment structure is aimed at providing a daily income and this is why workers will be paid at least twice a week through mobile money transfers,” said Mr Hinga adding that phase one of the programme will deliver wages for the next one month allowing them to meet their economic needs.

He said the project has been conceptualized to provide social relief by providing jobs and facilitating hygiene interventions to help contain the Covid-19 pandemic in informal urban settlements geared at integrating jobless Kenyans in urban hygiene and sanitation works across 23 informal settlements.