So, we're sitting here and Mary, you've just taken your kids to school.
You've been trying to get them to school, like, but they keep coming back.
What is the issue?
The issue is that I don't have the school fees, the money they want.
This is Mary.
She's a former sex worker in Kenya.
She's speaking with the post Nairobi correspondent, Catherine Horold.
They're talking about her current financial situation and why she doesn't have enough money to pay school fees for her kids.
I don't have a job right now, so I have to struggle here and there to find the school fees.
But the issue here is money.
She lives in the capital Nairobi, and Catherine says that until recently,
Mary had been working in HIV outreach in her community.
She's one of the people that has been trying to change things for the better.
She has been trying to educate her community about the dangers and about the treatment,
and how to protect yourselves, what to do, how to live positively.
That's what she calls it.
Mary's work received funding from USAID, the US Agency for International Development,
which delivers billions of dollars of life-saving food, water, and medical aid to people around the world.
She was just scraping by.
She got about $100 a month stipends from this program that she worked for doing HIV education outreach.