Oscar Ochieng Ochieng

By Oscar Ochieng Ochieng In most parts of Kenya's cities, people desperate to eat set off a stampede during a recent giveaway of flour and cooking oil, leaving scores injured and two people dead. In other countries in Asia thousands of workers are lining up twice a day for bread and fried vegetables to keep hunger at bay. And across the world, poor households are hanging red clothing and flags from their windows and balconies as a sign that they are hungry. “We don’t have any money, and now we need to survive,” says patriotic citizens who lost their jobs due to this pandemic and now they have to provide for their kids and relatives back at home who always know that money is everywhere in the city “That means not eating much.” The coronavirus pandemic has brought hunger to millions of people around the world. National lockdowns and social distancing measures are drying up work and incomes, and are likely to disrupt agricultural production and supply routes, leaving millions to worry...

  By Oscar Ochieng People have continued to debate on the effects of this corona virus pandemic ,whether it has done some good to this society or not. Well everybody have their own perception on this but to me it has actually done more harm than good to our society One of the effects of this pandemic that I would like to focus on is the fact that our young sisters are in danger of not being able to continue with their normal lives after the pandemic especially the school going girls. Our young girls are becoming parents! These cases continues to increase day in day out without any action being taken In 2019research had it that one in every five girls aged between 15 to 19 years has had a live birth or is pregnant. It’s a mind-blowing statistic that speaks to the teenage pregnancy crisis in the country that's only for the year 2019. what of now this year 2020 when these young girls are at home with schools closed over the spread of 2019. It is actually a good idea to close ...