"I have a husband but have to do this to fend for my children. He works as a stone mason and what he earns barely gets us through," confesses Grace, not her real name.

"From Monday to Friday, I prepare my two children for school, ensure that I drop them off, and then leave for downtown Nairobi. I don’t consider myself a sex worker as such, but just someone out to earn a living," says Grace, a married woman living in the slums of Mathare and engaged in sex work.

"I have been married for six years now and I am not the only one; we are quite many," adds Grace, who operates only at daytime at a popular joint along River Road, downtown Nairobi.