A woman doing business in Kibera. [Photo/mashable.com]
Like in Kibera has never been easy without hard work. Just like men, women in Kibera are hardworking and very fast. This is due to the fact that they have to hustle for domestics jobs before getting some cash for their families. However, they report cases of harassment from their potential bosses, something which most of them take as normal as long as they finish their job and get paid. Here are crucial reasons women in Kibera slums are hardworking:
Breadwinners
Most people in Kibera are jobless. They depend on their daily hustles to put food on their tables. Men and women have to work hard for their families. Most women are the breadwinners of their families as their men have no jobs too. All the two depend on daily hustles, which most men find hard to get. Women sell goods and foodstuff in Kibera to get food for their families.
Single-parents
Some women in Kibera are single parents. This makes it necessary for them to be hard working for their families. They provide all the necessities in the house. They pay rent, buy food, pay school fees for their children and buy all other essentials in the house. Without hard work, they make it hard for their families and themselves.
No permanent jobs
Most people in Kibera depend on daily domestic jobs at far places around the city of Nairobi. Therefore, these women work hard at these places so that they could secure another chance at the same place the next time people will be needed to work. They work not only for money but also because that is what they earn a living from.
To upgrade their lives
Have you ever visited a slum? The slum lives cannot be envied. People living in slums always wish they had better lives. This is why Kibera women are always working hard to move out of these areas. They want to move to some places better off hence they have to work hard and make good money for this to happen.
To form good networks
Kibera women depend on daily domestic work at rich people places. They work hard so that they could be directed somewhere else for another work. Some city bosses always want their employee to have the best in life hence they will help you get more jobs from their friends all over the city. This makes Kibera women to work real hard for them to win a good chance in their bosses heart.