A pandemic atlas: Kenya's youth suffer collateral damage

Youths in an apartment look out of their window as residents below protest on the streets, asking the government to supply them with food and to be allowed to leave, in the Eastleigh area of Nairobi, Kenya, on Monday, May 11, 2020. A week earlier, the Kenyan government sealed off Eastleigh and the Old Town area of the port city of Mombasa, with no movement permitted in or out for 15 days, due to "a surge in the number of positive coronavirus cases." (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

A boy wearing a face mask carries a small bowl of "githeri," made of mixed beans and maize, as he walks past a mural warning people about the risk of the new coronavirus, painted by graffiti artists from the Mathare Roots youth group, in the Mathare slum of Nairobi, Kenya, on Saturday, April 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Residents of an apartment building look down as police and protesters clash in the Kariobangi slum of Nairobi, Kenya, on Friday, May 8, 2020. Hundreds of protesters blocked one of the capital's major highways with burning tires to protest government demolitions of the homes of more than 7,000 people and the closure of a major food market, causing many to sleep out in the rain and cold because of restrictions on movement due to the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Protesting residents carry the body of a man, who they claimed had been beaten by police for being outside during the dusk-to-dawn curfew, but which could not be independently verified, in the Mathare slum of Nairobi, Kenya, on Monday, May 4, 2020. Human rights groups have protested the use of excessive force to enforce the curfew put in place to curb the spread of the new coronavirus. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Members of a team dedicated to burying Muslim victims of the new coronavirus spray disinfectant into the grave before burying Mohamed Ali Hassan at the Langata Muslim cemetery in Nairobi, Kenya, on Thursday, May 7, 2020. A cousin said he had been unaware he had the new coronavirus, dying in his house in the Eastleigh area. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Children run down a street past a mural warning people about the dangers of the new coronavirus, in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya, on Wednesday, June 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

A teenage girl who became a sex worker after schools in Kenya were closed in March due to coronavirus restrictions, sits in the rented room where she and others work, in Nairobi, Kenya, on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020. The girls saw their mothers' sources of income vanish when Kenya's government restricted movement to prevent the spread of the virus, and now engage in the sex work to help with household bills. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Schoolchildren attend class at the Olympic Primary School in Kibera, one of the capital's poorest areas, in Nairobi, Kenya, on Monday, Oct. 12, 2020. Kenya partially re-opened schools on Monday to allow students to prepare for examinations which had been postponed, following a total closure of all educational institutions enacted in March to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Residents desperate for a planned distribution of food for those suffering under Kenya's coronavirus-related movement restrictions push through a gate and create a stampede, causing police to fire tear gas at a district office in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya, on Friday, April 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)

Schoolchildren play at the Olympic Primary School in Kibera, one of Nairobi, Kenya's poorest areas, on Monday, Oct. 12, 2020. Kenya partially re-opened schools on Monday to allow students to prepare for examinations which had been postponed, following a total closure of all educational institutions enacted in March to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

A boy wears a mask as a preventative measure against the spread of the new coronavirus, as he navigates floodwaters mixed with garbage following heavy rains, in the Kibera slum, or informal settlement, of Nairobi, Kenya, on Thursday, March 26, 2020. Many slum residents say staying at home or social-distancing is impossible for those who live hand to mouth and receive daily wages for informal work, as is maintaining sanitation in densely populated areas where a pit latrine can be shared by dozens. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Ballet student Eugene Ochieng, 12, poses for a portrait in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya, on Thursday, April 23, 2020. The coronavirus pandemic is forcing children to stay home and learn remotely but in the depths of Kenya's slums, 12-year-old ballet student faces huge obstacles to remote learning: no computer, no internet access and very little space to practice. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Veronica Atieno, left, looks on as her husband, Gabriel Owour Juma, holds their daughter, Shaniz Joy Juma, accompanied by elder daughter, Valine Shalom Juma, right, in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya, on Friday, July 3, 2020. The infant was delivered a month earlier by a traditional birth attendant during a dusk-to-dawn curfew. Kenya already had one of the worst maternal mortality rates in the world, and though data are not yet available on the effects of the curfew aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus, experts believe the number of women and babies who die in childbirth has increased significantly since it was imposed mid-March. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Margaret Andeya brings her daughter, Gettrueth Ambio, 12, right, and her neighbor's daughter, Jane Mbone, 7, back home after having their hair styled at a salon in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya, on Sunday, May 3, 2020. The coronavirus has revived the hairstyle in East Africa, with braided spikes that echo the virus' distinctive shape. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Graffiti artist Elegwa Wycliffe, known as "Swift9," stands next to his coronavirus mural in the Huruma low-income neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya, on Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Traditional birth attendant Emily Owino massages a pregnant woman before assisting in delivering her baby, in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya, on Friday, July 3, 2020. Kenya already had one of the worst maternal mortality rates in the world, and though data are not yet available on the effects of the curfew aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus, experts believe the number of women and babies who die in childbirth has increased significantly since it was imposed mid-March. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Irene Wanzila, 10, breaks rocks with a hammer at the Kayole quarry in Nairobi, Kenya Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020, as she works along with her younger brother, older sister and mother, who says she was left without a choice after she lost her cleaning job at a private school when coronavirus pandemic restrictions were imposed. The United Nations says the COVID-19 pandemic risks significantly reducing gains made in the fight against child labor, putting millions of children at risk of being forced into exploitative and hazardous jobs, and school closures could exacerbate the problem. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Hussein Moyo and Khadija Abdullahi, parents of 13-year-old Yasin Moyo visit the mural painted in tribute to Yasin by graffiti artist Elegwa Wycliffe, known as "Swift9," in the Huruma low-income neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya, on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020. The teenager was one of the early victims of the coronavirus pandemic, not from the virus itself but from a bullet fired as he stood on his family's balcony watching the chaos of police officers chasing people still on the streets. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Hussein Moyo shows a photo of his 13-year-old son, Yasin Moyo, at his home in the Huruma low-income neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya, on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020. The teenager was one of the early victims of the coronavirus pandemic, not from the virus itself but from a bullet fired as he stood on his family's balcony watching the chaos of police officers chasing people still on the streets. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)