Kenyans have rallied to the aid of a widow filmed cooking stones for her eight children to make them believe she was preparing food for them.
Peninah Bahati Kitsao, who lives in Mombasa, hoped they would fall asleep while they waited for their meal.
She used to wash laundry locally but such work is hard to come by now as people have restricted their interactions because of coronavirus.
A shocked neighbour, Prisca Momanyi, alerted the media to her plight.
After being interviewed by Kenya's NTV, the widow has received money via mobile phone and through a bank account that was opened for her by Momanyi, as the mother of eight does not know how to read and write.
Kitsao, who lives in a two-bedroomed house without running water or electricity, has described the generosity as a "miracle".
She had told NTV that her hungry children had not been deceived for long by her delaying stone-cooking tactics. She said her children started telling her that they knew she was lying to them, but she could do nothing because she had nothing.
[Source: BBC]
