Lydiah Wangoi
AGE: almost 40,
SUPPORTS: 3 children none live with her, no husband
PROFESSION: has worked as a sex worker for 15 years
EARNINGS/SAVINGS: 50-200 shillings ($.70-2.85) per customer, no savings

She is pictured in her small room that she rents for 650 shillings ($8.10) a month. It's about 30x30 feet.

My body is weak. I'm old. This profession is sinful even to me but I do this job because of the poverty--I have no other way to make money. I pray to god that my children will finish school and then have a job so that they can help me, I hope that is my future and hope that my children will never have to do the dirty job that I do so that they can have enough to eat; I sacrifice my body so that I can educate my children. When my children where very little I managed to put a little bit of money in the bank. When my children where old enough to be in secondary school I had the money saved and I paid for them to continue their education.

These recent days have been particularly difficult because my customers are fearing the bad disease. Last night I didn't find anyone and my age makes also makes it hard because if the men do come then they want the young ones, so I try to seek out men of my age if I can. If I am with a man for a night it's 200, and for a short time it's 50--it all depends. Poverty is very bad here. Before the disease there where a lot of customers, this disease has made ti very hard to send my children to school.