A Working Mom during COVID

During the COVID 19 pandemic, millions of women have left jobs because they have been unable to find care for their children, others, have tried to maintain full-time positions working from home. Child care centers closed abruptly, along with schools, leaving an estimated 1.5 billion children with nowhere to go. About 800 million of them were under 6 years old. For middle-class women in Kenya, such as Janet, days are filled with children, cooking and cleaning, while nights are spent fulfill to complete work responsibilities.

Photographed for the Gates Foundation March 2021.